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STARTING SCHOOL (Paperback, Ed)
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STARTING SCHOOL (Paperback, Ed)
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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
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