White Children in a Multi-cultural School Setting: a valid cause for concern?
Titel:
White Children in a Multi-cultural School Setting: a valid cause for concern?
Auteur:
Faulkner, Joy
Verschenen in:
Educational studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 16 (1990) nr. 2 pagina's 109-116
Jaar:
1990
Inhoud:
This research was carried out as the basis for an M.Ed. thesis for the University of Birmingham during the early part of 1983. Its main aim was to compare the social, emotional and scholastic adjustment of a group of indigenous white children attending a multi-cultural school with a similar group being educated in a mono-cultural, predominantly white setting. A secondary aim was to investigate inter-ethnic differences between the three cultural groups represented. The investigation was carried out amongst pupils in the two top year groups (9-11-year-olds) from two city primary schools, one school being mainly multi-cultural in background and one mainly mono-cultural. The schools were matched as closely as possible for ethos, pupil social background, environment, and teaching practice. The results of the study indicated that the primary null hypothesis: that no significant differences would appear between the responses of the group of white pupils attending the multi-cultural school and those of their counterparts in the control group attending the mono-cultural school, was sustained. However, some inter-ethnic differences did emerge from the data, but sex rather than cultural background or type of school attended proved to be the major source of difference in response.
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