Educating Our Black Children : New Directions and Radical Approaches

Exclusion and miseducation of black children is endemic in the US and UK. This book takes a long, hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn from each other in their approaches to tackling this problem. The material in the book is the result of extensive work with educators, researchers and scholars working in the area of education and disaffection in the US and the UK. Richard Majors and his contributors are at the vanguard of research into this topic and this book is one of the most important titles published on the education of black children in recent times. Gathering together the issues and looking at real-world approaches, this book does not simply advance the debate: it tables some serious solutions to serious problems. This is a ground-breaking book based on cutting-edge research from writers and experts recognised the world over for their expertise. People will take note of what this book has to say Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 1 Racism, policy and the (mis)education of black children......Page 28 2 The education of Black children: why do some schools do better than others?......Page 43 3 Academic disidentification: unravelling under achievement among Black boys......Page 60 4 The ‘miseducation’ of Black children in the British educational system......Page 76 5 Lessons from America: the African American Immersion Schools experiment......Page 94 6 Black supplementary schools: spaces of radical blackness......Page 105 7 The exclusion of Black children: implications for a racialised perspective......Page 120 8 Educational psychologists and Black exclusion: towards a framework for effective intervention......Page 125 9 Black exclusions in a moral vacuum......Page 143 10 Enhancing achievement in adolescent Black males:......Page 156 11 An after-school manhood development program......Page 172 12 Black boys at school: negotiating masculinities and race......Page 184 13 Black boys and schooling......Page 198 14 Mentoring Black males......Page 220 15 School based mentoring for minority youth......Page 229 List of contributors......Page 273 Index......Page 279 "It is well established that many young black pupils are being excluded from mainstream education. Although social exclusion is a major issue in the government's education policy, recent initiatives and programmes have been criticised for being colour-blind and failing to place targets on areas such as black exclusions. This book goes beyond traditional research and policy analysis by providing actual approaches and programmes. This collection of essays from distinguished UK and US contributors focuses on positive social inclusion policy and practice. Themes covered include: mentoring schemes and how to evaluate mentoring; masculine identity; rites of passage programmes and manhood training; black supplementary schools; and African-centred knowledge systems." Comparing UK and US initiatives, the contributors move the debate forward by providing original and creative approaches to issues in black education, laying the framework for new policies and practices. Educating Our Black Children will be an invaluable read for students studying education, social work, psychology and sociology as well as policy makers, academics, practitioners and headteachers/principals. Exclusion and expulsion of black children from schools is endemic in the US and the UK. This book takes a long hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn from each other in their approaches to tackling this problem. The material in the book is the result of extensive work with educators, researchers and scholars working in the area of exclusion in the US and the UK. Different approaches have met with varying degrees of success, all of which provide valuable lessons. Gathering together the issues and looking at real-world approaches, this book does not simply advance the debate -- it tables some serious solutions to serious problems. Exclusion and expulsion of black children from schools is endemic in the US and the UK. This book takes a long hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn form each other in their approaches to tackling this problem. The material in the book is the result of extensive work with educators, researchers and scholars working in the area of exclusion in the US and the UK. Different approaches have met with varying degrees of success, but all can be learnt from. Gathering together the issues and looking at real-world approaches, this book does not simply advance the debate-it tables some serious solutions to serious problems There is a common assumption that Britain was somehow ethnically homogeneous before the major post-war migrations from the Caribbean and Indian subcontinent in the mid twentieth century.