PUBLICATION

Outcast England: How schools exclude black children

By Jenny Bourne, Lee Bridges and Chris Searle

The first report on why so many black children are excluded from school.

This unique study is written from three points of view: that of the school governor, that of the headteacher and that of the excluded child.

'Exclusion is seldom the measure of a child's capacity to learn; it is an indication, instead, of the teacher's refusal to be challenged. And, when you have an educational system which puts a premium not on the educability of the child but on the price of its education, the challenge to the teacher is the financial cost of keeping it in school, not the human cost of keeping it out. When, in addition, educability itself is prejudged in terms of a societal stereotype which associates 'black' with 'problem', the exclusion of the black child becomes that much more automatic'.

Ordering

Buy / check prices - Outcast England