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.

Problematises simplistic notions of supplementary schooling used to frame and conceptualise the schools Links the purpose, ethos and operations of supplementary schools to the social positioning of their communities Allows the reader an insight into ethnic minority communities through the supplementary school

Autorentext

Amanda Simon is Lecturer in Education and Social Sciences at St Mary's University, UK. Her research interests include classroom discourse, identity construction, interactional dynamics and alternative approaches to education: in this vein, she has undertaken substantial research on supplementary schooling as a highly valuable yet largely unrecognized realm of education.

Inhalt
PART I. Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Supplementary Schools and their Communities.- Chapter 3. The History of Supplementary Schooling.- PART II. Purposes and Positionings of Supplementary Schools.- Chapter 4. Survival and Safeguarding.- Chapter 5. Counteraction and Transformation.- Chapter 6. Recovery.- Part III. Positioning in Practice.- Chapter 7. School C and Mainstream Schooling: An Ambivalent Positioning.- Chapter 8. Everyday Classroom Discourse and the Enactment of the Transformative Agenda.- PART IV. Widening the Scope: Supplementary Schools and Acculturation.- Chapter 9. Supplementary Schools and Acculturation Metanarratives.- Chapter 10. Supplementary Schools and their Communities.