Supporting Black Pupils and Parents : Understanding and Improving Home-school Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415340557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str.

Lorna Cork; Doreen Lawrence

Opis

Exclusion rates of black children in the UK and around the world continue to rise, highlighting that something is very wrong with the way their teaching and learning is supported in today's schools. Teachers often blame parents, parents blame teachers, and an unhappy downward spiral ensues.
Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education. She focuses on contemporary situations and uses real-life case studies to emphasize the human consequences of the true issues behind the statistics.
This topical text offers a detailed look at five key organizations that exist to support black parents. It examines their home-school interventions and discusses the central issues arising out of their efforts. The fascinating evidence offers fresh perspectives on home-school interventions, providing much needed advice and guidance to all those seeking to improve co-operation between black families, schools andcommunities, who all share the goal of supporting the learning and attainment of the black child. Above all constructive in tone, examples of good practice and strategies that have been tried and tested are all provided here, as well as suggestions for further reading and additional sources of support.
Any education professional; teacher, student teacher or staff at an LEA, in addition to anyone with a serious interest in race issues, is sure to find this essential reading.

Recenzje

'What this book does do well is highlight the diverse needs of and the extreme concern Black parents have regarding the education of their children and the need for a range of well-publicised national organisations external to the school to support them in their aims.' - Nicola Rollock, Runnymede's Quarterly Bulletin, December 2005

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. A Parent is a Parent is a Parent? 3. A Theory is a Theory is a Theory: Culturally sensitive research and theorisation 4. Advocaid: 'We're Here for the Child' 5. Mediaid: 'Let Us Talk' 6. Culturaid: 'Raising Cultural Awareness' 7. Linkaid: 'Remember that you're Working for the School' 8. Actionaid: 'We Need to Know' 9. Cultural Co-operation or Cultural Exclusion?

O autorze

Dr Lorna Cork is an adviser currently working for Birmingham LEA, going into schools and classrooms on a regular basis, providing training and support. She has just received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge.