Abstract
This article provides an overview of the causal relationship between ethnicity and educational achievement. It sets educational achievement as a process in which culture is transmitted differentially and results in inequalities across ethnic and racial groups. This article summarizes key theoretical paradigms including genetic intelligence, cultural characteristics within a particular ethnic or racial community and social forces and structural attributes in students' school and classroom experiences, and most significant empirical research in each paradigm. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences |
| Editors | James D. WRIGHT |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 130-135 |
| Edition | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970875, 9780080970868 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Citation
Gao, F., & Postiglione, G. A. (2015). Ethnicity and educational achievement. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2 ed., pp. 130–135). Amsterdam: Elsevier.Keywords
- Conflict view
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical race theory
- Cultural deficit
- Cultural difference
- Cultural ecological model
- Educational achievement
- Ethnicity
- Genetic deficit
- Labeling
- Multicultural education
- Race
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Social order view
- Tracking