Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities: A Social Positioning Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781137500564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 235 str.

Amanda Simon

Opis

This book provides a unique perspective into the world of supplementary schooling, exploring both the social positioning of these schools and the ethnic minority communities they serve.

Spis treści

PART I. Setting the Scene

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Supplementary Schools and their Communities

Chapter 3. The History of Supplementary Schooling

PART II. Purposes and Positionings of Supplementary Schools

Chapter 4. Survival and Safeguarding

Chapter 5. Counteraction and Transformation.

Chapter 6. Recovery.- Part III. Positioning in Practice

Chapter 7. School C and Mainstream Schooling: An Ambivalent Positioning

Chapter 8. Everyday Classroom Discourse and the Enactment of the Transformative Agenda

PART IV. Widening the Scope: Supplementary Schools and Acculturation

Chapter 9. Supplementary Schools and Acculturation Metanarratives

Chapter 10. Supplementary Schools and their Communities.​

O autorze

Amanda Simon is Lecturer in Education and Social Sciences at St Mary’s University, UK. Her research interests include classroom discourse, identity construction, interactional dynamics and alternative approaches to education: in this vein, she has undertaken substantial research on supplementary schooling as a highly valuable yet largely unrecognized realm of education.