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The intersectionality of quality and equality
education for ethnic minorities in Britain: Race,
class, gender and the Caribbean dimension
Professor
Heidi Safia
Mirza
Intersectionality
race, class and gender
What is an intersectional analysis?
How does race, class and gender impact on
our understanding of learning, teaching and
systems of assessment ?
In the context of intersectionality what factors
affect pupil assessment?
….gender is always
lived in the modalities of
ethnicity and class, and
nationality in the
modalities of gender and
race , and class in the
modalities of gender and
nationality’ ( Prins
2006:278)
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CRENSHAW’S TRAFFIC LIGHT METAPHOR
It is the work of the black
and postcolonial
feminist to ask the
simple question
what does this mean? –
and begin to plot a
history’
(GayatriSpivak,1988:297)
Race class and genderWhich one?
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Gender and race- Are all the
girls really doing that well?
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Race and ethnicity makes
a difference to Class
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Ethnic Monitoring and
Hierarchies of Difference
GCSE 5 A*- C grades
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Chinese
DfES /SFR
Indian
White
Bangladesh
Pakistan
African
GCSE results, England 2009
Caribbean
Theories of ‘black underachievement’
in Britain and Caribbean
Cultural
Black masculinity
Female centeredness
Peer pressure ( gangs)
Resistance and ‘Acting
white’
Parental involvement
Bullying and violence
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Structural
Teachers perceptions
Institutional racism
Transition from primary
to secondary
Curriculum and
pedagogy and books
Poor neighbourhoods
teaching and resources
What assessment tells us about
Progression and Transition
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Achieving Quality Education
What makes a difference?
Can it be measured?
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Teacher training for inclusion, diversity and
equality
Supplementary Community schools ( indigenous
knowledges)
School leadership , ethos & distributive
leadership (effective schools)
Setting Inclusive targets ( assessment for social
justice not league tables)
Monitoring achievement of ethnic/gender groups
through formative assessment and review
For a black person to become
educated is therefore to become
human.
Nothing is more astonishing than
to hear a black (wo)man express
himself properly, for then he is
putting on the white world.
Education in this sense is not
about the process of learning or
teaching or schooling- it is about
refutation.
Franz Fanon Black Skin White Masks
1952 ( Pluto Press 1986)
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