Education and Social Justice

Education and Social Justice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................................3
Discussion of risk that black children are prone to in lower educational attainment.......................3
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................8
Books and journals...........................................................................................................................8
Online...............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
According to Bartlett and Burton, Education is the acquisition of knowledge; it is also a
way to understand and develop skills . This assignment will consider the evidence and discuss
why black children are at greater risk of lower educational attainment and exclusion than other
groups (Andrews, Robinson and Hutchinson, 2017). In this essay, the secondary level
education will be considered. It will define what Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) is
in terms of Education. Also, the discussion related to attainment in Education will be done by
stating the statistics of achievement and exclusion. It will also discuss the impact of labelling
and self-fulfilling prophecy and how that can affect attainment of education along with
touching on topics such as poverty and cultural capital and intersectionality and social
reproduction.
MAIN BODY
Discussion of risk that black children are prone to in lower educational attainment
An ethnic group is class of people of the same identity; they constitute a minority and are
separated from other groups (Gillborn, 2018). In UK, black people started accessing Education
around 50 years ago. Since the 90s black kids in England and Wales where 15x more likely to
be excluded from school. The story is not so different today. Mixed white and the black
Caribbean, and Black Caribbean pupils have a high exclusion rate, they are three times more
likely to be excluded permanently as white British pupils (Child poverty and education
outcomes by ethnicity. 2021). These exclusions may be caused due to the way they behave in
school, causing the gap to widen. However, some of the exclusions were not on because of
their behaviours but were based on things that have no effect on education such as hairstyles,
lack of understanding and the racial that has made some schools to exclude pupils from
wearing bandanna and kissing teeth.
There is also a significant difference in attainment of education between pupils from different
ethnics groups. The GCSE results show that white students attain higher level of education
than black students . Over the years, many psychologist and educators agreed that intelligence
should be viewed as intelligence quotient(IQ) test measures. They conducted some IQ test, and
the results proved that the IQ tests are linked to economic and ethnics differences. White
students had obtained higher marks than blacks students. (Bywaters and et.al., 2020) states
that the differences in IQ between blacks and white were due to genetics . This journal is based