Significance Of Race In Education

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 …showed first 75 words of 3313 total…

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