Supplementary schools and ethnic minority communities :
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[Book]
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a social positioning perspective.
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London :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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2018.
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1 online resource
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Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Setting the Scene; 1: Introduction; Theoretical and Conceptual and Empirical Groundings; The Positioning Triad; Categories of Positioning; Blommaert-An Approach to Discourse; Micro-macro Dichotomy; A Notion of Context; Structure of the Book; References; 2: Supplementary Schools and Their Communities; The Idea of Supplementary Schooling; Labelling and Categorisation of Schools; The Community in Context; Factors that Impact Community Positioning; Perceptions of the Home Country; Community Identity and the Acculturation Process; Summary
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8: Everyday Classroom Discourse and the Transformative AgendaThe 'Can Do' Ethos; Policing the Ethos; Safeguarding of the Ethos; Promotion and Substantiation of the 'Can Do' Ethos; Racially Tailored Aspects of School Life; Expressions of Collectivity; The Use of Patois in the Classroom; Summary; References; Part IV: Widening the Scope: Supplementary Schools and Acculturation; 9: Supplementary Schools and Acculturation Metanarratives; Preservation; Preservation and Protection; Preservation, Protection and Defence; Preservation, Protection, Defence and Regeneration (Recovery)
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Regeneration (Transformation)Summary; References; 10: Supplementary Schools and Their Communities; Purposes; School Positioning; What Schools Do for Their Communities-Social Acts; References; References; Index
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The Counteraction of Negative Community PortrayalsShowcasing; Transformation; Summary; References; 6: Recovery; Identity Recovery; Recovering the 'African' Identity; Recovering the Irish Identity; Summary; References; Part III: Positioning in Practice: The case of an African-Caribbean Supplementary School; Part III Introduction; Rationale for the Case Study; Overview of African-Caribbean School C; References; 7: School C and Mainstream Schooling: An Ambivalent Positioning; Points of Divergence; Home-School Connection; Points of Convergence; Summary; References
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 a fresh and novel insight into acculturation processes. Drawing on empirical data gathered from staff interviews, classroom observations and interactive recordings, this book explores the operation of supplementary schools as sites of identity construction where the community identities are preserved, defended, renegotiated and reconstructed. The various modes of construction are indicative of the acculturation experiences of ethnic minority communities and the ways in which these communities negotiate residence in one country whilst having roots in another. This book therefore offers a revealing conceptualization of supplementary schools, not merely as educational spaces, but socio-political enterprises that are situated within and respond to various historical, social and political contexts. This pioneering work will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of education, migration and identity.
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Supplementary schools and ethnic minority communities.