Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities A Social Positioning Perspective /

• Main Author: Simon, Amanda (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Social work.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Schools.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Sociology of Education.; Social Work.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Schools and Schooling.; Ethnicity in Education.

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. The author presents a close examination of the establishment and functioning of supplementary schools which offers...

Table of Contents:

• 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.