Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities : A Social Positioning Perspective

"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." -- Prové de l'editor Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Amanda Simon)....Pages 3-24 Supplementary Schools and Their Communities (Amanda Simon)....Pages 25-47 The History of Supplementary Schooling (Amanda Simon)....Pages 49-66 Front Matter ....Pages 67-70 Survival and Safeguarding (Amanda Simon)....Pages 71-91 Counteraction and Transformation (Amanda Simon)....Pages 93-121 Recovery (Amanda Simon)....Pages 123-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-141 School C and Mainstream Schooling: An Ambivalent Positioning (Amanda Simon)....Pages 143-161 Everyday Classroom Discourse and the Transformative Agenda (Amanda Simon)....Pages 163-185 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Supplementary Schools and Acculturation Metanarratives (Amanda Simon)....Pages 189-206 Supplementary Schools and Their Communities (Amanda Simon)....Pages 207-216 Back Matter ....Pages 217-235 Annotation This volume 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