Product Description: How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their decision-making about their children’s education? There is now an extensive body of research on the educational strategies of the white middle classes but a silence exists around the emergence of the Black middle classes and their experiences, priorities, and actions in relation to education...read more

Product Description: Multicultural education is a thriving – though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested – field of study and research. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds to help them acquire the knowledge, aptitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society...read more

Product Description: Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the first major study of the English education system using ‘critical race theory’. David Gillborn has been described as Britain’s ‘most influential race theorist in education’...read more

A presentation of an important new investigation into the issues of race, ethnicity and education, following the extensive reforms of state education during the late 1980s. The author provides a critical introduction to the current issues and major research findings in the field.

Product Description: In this lecture, David Gillborn argues that racism is more subtle and extensive than is usually recognized. This has important consequences for how pupils are categorized by schools and for the shape of education reform in the future.

Product Description: This work, based on a research review undertaken for the Social Exclusion Unit, examines evidence on the nature of the connection between educational attainment and socio-economic conditions.

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Product Description: This text focuses on racism in the policy, research, theory and practice of education. It includes a study of anti-racism at the level of whole-school management and classroom practice. The words of teachers and students are included to bring the issues to life and to illustrate the daily problems of life in urban schools...read more