1st Edition
Supporting Black Pupils and Parents Understanding and Improving Home-school Relations
By Lorna Cork
Copyright 2005
188 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education. 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. Focusing on contemporary situations and... Read more
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?
Biography
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.
'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
