Elitist curriculum not serving white working classes

Elitist curriculum not serving white working classes

By Onlykhabar News Media Thu 15 October, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤543 Viewerseducation

A "competitive" education system and an "elitist curriculum" do not help address the underachievement of white working class pupils, MPs have heard.

Academics told MPs the white working classes faced a "status deficit" as the national conversation had become "much more consumed" with other groups.  They said these pupils were "stuck" in terms of their achievement at GCSE. Conversations about issues like "white privilege" and "toxic masculinity" could further alienate them.  The Education Select Committee was taking evidence on Tuesday about the issue of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds being left behind. Asked why white boys and girls in poorer communities performed worse than peers from different ethnic backgrounds, Prof Goodwin said a number of "cultural" factors were likely to play a part.

Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent told the committee terms such as "toxic masculinity" and "white privilege" could "become more of a problem as we send yet another signal to these communities that they are the problem". "And that, for example, I would argue, speaking quite candidly, is reflected in our national conversation, which gives these kids what I would call a status deficit - that over the last 10 years our national conversation has become much more consumed with other groups in society.

"Now that doesn't explain this entire problem, but I think at a macro national level it's absolutely part of the explanation for why even the parents of these kids and their grandparents are feeling as though they are not being given sufficient levels of status and respect in wider society, and lastly in a society that really only gives status to university graduates." "That has led in particular the white working class to feel as though they are not being given as much recognition and esteem as others.

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