Educational Attainments Issues and Outcomes in Multicultural Education

List of contents

Introduction Gajendra Verma and Peter Pumfrey Part 1: Issues 1. Issues in Multicultural Education Gajendra Verma 2. Monitoring the Reading Attainments of Children from Minority Ethnic Groups: LEA Practices Peter Pumfrey 3. Developing Bilingual Children’s English in School Tony Kerr and Martin Desforges 4. Racism Awareness: Training, Education and Accountability Peter Pumfrey 5. The Swann Report and Ethnic Minority Attainment Bhikhu Parekh 6. Policies and Promising Practices in Education Peter Newsam Part 2: Outcomes 7. West Indian and Asian Children’s Educational Attainment N.J. Mackintosh, C.G. Mascie-Taylor and A.M. West 8. Educational Achievement of Ethnic Minority Children in a Midlands Town John R. Roberts 9. Black Pupils’ Progress in Secondary School Barbara Maughan and Graham Dunn 10. Inner City Adolescents: Unequal Opportunities Ann Dawson 11. Self-Esteem and Educational Achievement in British Young South Asians, Gajendra Verma and Kanka Mallick 12. The Brent Inquiry: Findings and Implications Jocelyn Barrow

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Gajendra Verma, Peter Pumfrey

Summary

Originally published in 1988. This book presents an account of some of the challenges to society involved in multicultural education, together with recent empirical evidence concerning the educational attainments of pupils of Afro-Caribbean, Asian and British origins.

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• Assisted by: Gajendra (University of Manchester Verma (Editor), Peter Pumfrey (Editor), Peter D. Pumfrey (Editor), Gajendra Verma (Editor), Gajendra K. Verma (Editor), Pumfrey Peter D. (Editor), Verma Gajendra (Editor)
• Authors: Gajendra (University of Manchester Verma, Gajendra K. Pumfrey Verma, Gajendra K. (University of Manchester Verma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 07.07.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781138071322
• ISBN: 978-1-138-07132-2
• Pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education and Multiculturalism; Routledge Library Editions: Education and Multiculturalism
• Subjects: EDUCATION / General, iq test, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Moral and social purpose of education, Multicultural education, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, Education System, Young Men, Empirical Educational Research, educational policy analysis, ethnic minority education, Black Pupils, West Indian Children, ethnic minority pupils, West Indian Origin, Swann Report, IQ Score, student achievement disparities, Ethnic minority children, West Indian Pupils, bilingualism classroom, racial equality schools, minority pupil attainment UK, Rampton Committee, British Educational System, Child’s IQ Score, Afro-Caribbean Pupil, Obtain IQ Score, Reading Attainments, Afro-Caribbean Group, Early Secondary School Years, Rampton Report, Non-racist Education