Evaluation:
Published: 28.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Significance of Race in Education', 1.
  • Essays 'Significance of Race in Education', 2.
  • Essays 'Significance of Race in Education', 3.
  • Essays 'Significance of Race in Education', 4.
  • Essays 'Significance of Race in Education', 5.
Extract

Ethnicity refers to the cultural practices and out look of a community, within a society. 1 The term is preferable than theories of race and the immigrant based model. Race is defined as a scientifically discredited term, previously used to describe biologically distinct groups of persons who were alleged to have characteristics of an alterable nature.
Social Science now recognised that race is a socially constructed categorisation which specifies rules for the identification of a given group with cultural differences. …

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