EDUC 3233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Ogbu, Otto Klineberg, Bilingual Education

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Department of Undergraduate Studies in Education & Aboriginal Education
• Course: EDUC 3233
• Professor: Patrick Radebe

Document Summary

The construct of deficit thinking: the majority of students who fail to achieve in the public education are racialized students, students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds. Example of non-achievement; poor grades and disproportionately high dropout rates from secondary: 1. Caste (theory) john ogbu: racial and ethnicity minorities in the us, i. e. , african americans non-immigrant or. Involuntary minorities with a history of slavery; conquest (e. g. , native indians or. In response to oppression, racialized students develop a mindset that leads them to believe that they cannot be academically successfully and ethnically different: culturally diverse students tend to end up resisting what they are taught in school, 3. Social reproduction and resistance (theory) bowles and gintis: this theory attributes poor academic achievements to structural inequality or systemic inequalities in (i) the national economy, (ii) political influence over school policy, and (c) the top-down authoritarian nature of schooling.