Volume 42, May 2015, Pages 73–84
Exploring social and psycho-social factors that might help explain the Afro-Caribbean boy underachievement in England
Highlights
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- Afro-Caribbean boys underachieve compared to their girls throughout the Caribbean diaspora.
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- There are distinct gender-achievement patterns for Afro-Caribbean adolescents in England.
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- Boy underachievement could be accounted for in math and science but not English.
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- Few variables identified by Caribbean literature moderated the gap.
Abstract
For
over four decades, it has been documented that Afro-Caribbean boys in
England underachieve compared to their female counterparts. Caribbean
literature has pointed to social and psycho-social factors that might be
important in explaining some of this difference. To examine the extent
to which these factors are important even throughout the Caribbean
diaspora, this quantitative study explored the role these social and
psychosocial factors played in explaining the achievement gap between
Afro-Caribbean boys and girls residing in England. Findings demonstrated
that only a few of these factors identified in Caribbean literature
were important for attenuating the gap.
Keywords
- Caribbean;
- Gender-gap;
- Attitudes/behaviors;
- Academic achievement
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