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The Explanation of Minority School Failure, Again
Author(s) -
McDermott R. P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1987.18.4.04x0025y
Subject(s) - ethnography , educational anthropology , sociology , minority group , function (biology) , power (physics) , ethnic group , anthropology , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology
Most explanations of minority school failure incorporate native definitions of both failure and minority group membership. The power of such explanations is limited by their starting assumptions, and they function primarily as an apology for our present system. Minority school failure and its explanation by social scientists are two levels of the same process that we need to confront. ETHNOGRAPHY OF SCHOOLING, SCHOOL FAILURE, MINORITY EDUCATION