1st Edition

Starting School (Routledge Revivals)

By Brian Jackson Copyright 1979
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1979, this book considers the culture of a multi-racial community through the eyes of six children about to start school. Each child is from a different background but all live in the same street in a town in the north of England. Following the children from home into school, their six separate lives are unveiled, illustrating the manner in which their six separate worlds are... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Scene Setting;  Part I: Six Children  1. Enter Victoria  2. Enter Yasmin  3. Enter Beauregard  4. Enter Noël  5. Enter Angelica  6. Enter Gopal  Part II: In Search of a Culture  7. Filter  8. What Do We Know about Victoria?  9. Classroom  10. Invisible Messages  11. A Joke’s a Joke  12. Festival  13. Six Children in Search of a Multi-cultural Society  14. Merry Christmas;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Brian Jackson