Product Description

This book traces the experiences of 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. It 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. Thus it shows how children succeed and fail from their early days at school and suggests ways of working with children from working class and multicultural families which may help both children and parents to gain a better understanding of school learning in the UK.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #387671 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"Most importantly though, this is a powerful book. Brooker starts from awareness that all is not well in the reception class, identifies and documents the complexities of the problem, and never swerves from her commitment to make a new understanding work for change. Serious readers of her book will be able to use it to make a difference to the lives of young children-there's power for you!" - Liz Brooker (Early Years Educator )

"...a balanced, finely observed and elegantly written book. Liz Broker challenges us to move towards a jointly owned culture in the classroom and school through working with families and communities and not only with the children." - Eve Bearne (Reading & Language )

About the Author
Liz Brooker taught for twenty years in Inner London schools, before undertaking the study described in this book. She now teaches and researches at the Institute of Education in London, in the areas of Early Childhood Education, and family involvement in their children's development and learning. (20021121)