STARTING SCHOOL (Paperback, Ed)

How does the home experience of children from poor and ethnic minority communities influence their adaptation to school? How does the traditional "child-centred" and progressive pedagogy of early years classrooms meet the needs of children from culturally diverse backgrounds? This title seeks to address these key questions by tracing the learning experiences of individual children from a poor inner-urban neighbourhood - half of them from Bangladeshi families - as they acquire the knowledge appropriate to their home culture and then take this knowledge to their reception class. The book highlights the small differences in family life - in parenting practices, in perspectives on childhood, and in beliefs about work and play - which make a big difference to children's adaptations to school. In other words, it shows how children succeed and fail from their early days at school.; It shows too how the "good intentions" of good teachers can sometimes allow children from certain backgrounds to become disaffected, and learn to fail; and it suggests ways of working with children from working class and multicultural families which may help both children and parents to gain a better understandi

General

Imprint:	Open University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Liz Brooker
Dimensions:	232 x 153 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-335-20932-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Primary / junior schools Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of ethnic minorities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	0-335-20932-7
Barcode:	9780335209323

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