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Direct linkFrancis, Becky; Archer, Louise – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
British-Chinese pupils are the highest achieving ethnic group in the British education system, and British-Chinese boys performance equals that of girls. This paper investigates aspects of British-Chinese pupils constructions of learning, focusing particularly on subject preferences and their constructions of themselves as pupils. The results are…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Social Class, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Archer, Louise; Francis, Becky – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2005
British Chinese pupils stand out as a high achieving group within the British education system and yet very little theoretical or policy attention has been given to these pupils' identities and experiences of education. In this paper we consider British Chinese pupils' (and parents') reports of their experiences of racism/s and their views on the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Stereotypes, Masculinity, Educational Policy
Francis, Becky; Archer, Louise – British Educational Research Journal, 2005
The high achievement of British-Chinese pupils in the British education system is established in the official literature, but few studies have asked British-Chinese pupils or parents about the factors contributing to their success. This paper explores value of education as a possible contributory aspect. It investigates the extent to which…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Social Class, Cultural Influences, Social Values
Archer, Louise; Francis, Becky – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
This paper examines the ways in which British Chinese pupils are positioned and represented within the popular/dominant discourse of teachers working in London schools. Drawing on individual interviews from a study conducted with 30 teachers, 80 British Chinese pupils and 30 Chinese parents, we explore some of the racialised, gendered and classed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Sex Stereotypes, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
