Concept information
Preferred term
cultural deficit model
Definition
- The cultural deficit model (hereafter referred to as the deficit model) is the perspective that minority group members are different because their culture is deficient in important ways from the dominant majority group. The field of educational psychology has long been interested in understanding why racially different, non-White children perform differently in school, with an emphasis on academic underachievement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology; Cultural Deficit Model]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cultural_deficit_model
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