Introduction

This book is a major new investigation into the issues of race, ethnicity and education, following the educational reforms during the late 1980s. It provides an up-to-date and critical introduction to current issues and major research findings in the field, exploring the teacher-pupil relationship through a detailed account of life in an inner-city comprehensive.

Key Themes

It reveals the influence of different racist stereotypes and highlights the especially disadvantaged position of Afro-Caribbean pupils within a school.

Features

Draws on a wide variety of research projects in ethnic schools to examine: achievement; curriculum content; language use; assessment and testing under the National Curriculum.

Uses material collected during two years of research to consider young people’s school experiences and issues relating to classroom discipline.