Conference:
ECER 2006
Format:
Symposium
Session Information
Contribution
Description: This paper argues that in Britain dominant educational discourses of 'the ideal pupil' exclude minority ethnic pupils and deny them the opportunity of inhabiting a position of authentic 'success'. It suggests that 'the successful pupil' is a desired yet refused subject position for many minority ethnic young people - even for those who are (to some extent) performing 'educational success'.The paper draws on interview and discussion group data from teachers, minority ethnic parents and minority ethnic pupils (aged 14-16 years) that were collected across four separate studies. All the studies were conducted in British secondary schools and focused on the identities and experiences of British Chinese, British Muslim and ethnically diverse samples of young peopleAttention is given to entanglements of 'race', gender, class and sexuality and it is argued that dominant constructions of 'the successful pupil' are predicated upon an idealised male, white, middle class (western) subject. The conceptual device of a trichotomy is also employed to discuss how different minority ethnic pupils are always-already positioned as 'other' within British educational discourse, such that even 'high achieving' minority ethnic pupils may experience success as precarious.
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