British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital
British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital This book examines the extent to which British-born Black African youth have access to opportunities and support during their…
Specifikacia British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital
British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital
This book examines the extent to which British-born Black African youth have access to opportunities and support during their pre-school, primary school and secondary school years.Through the voice of British-born Black African youth, this book explores why and how some racial-ethnic and linguistic minority students fail academically while students from other linguistic minorities excel despite coming from similar socio-economic backgrounds. In contrast to the focus on achievement gaps, the concept of opportunity gaps shows how and why language policies have Drawing on interpretive-qualitative research analysis, the author demonstrates the racial dimension of social capital in education that challenges the traditional social capital theory, which recodes structural notions of racial inequality as primarily cultural, social, and human capital processes and interactions.
Black and British
Black and British
Social Capital Halpern David