Price £16.99
136 pages
247mm x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 303 8
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 303 9
December 2004
Foreword by Silvaine Wiles
Here is a vivid picture of what works for secondary pupils - for emerging and developing bilingual pupils, the gifted and talented, Eastern European Roma, African Caribbean high achievers, a group of Somali boys - and how it can be realised. The contributors draw on their own practice to explain why schools took certain steps to promote the learning of all their pupils, so providing models of excellence for other authorities and schools to follow or adapt.
Equal Measures offers some of the answers to vital questions: How best can we support and also challenge bilingual pupils so as to support but also extend them? How can schools make optimal use of their education authority? And of teaching assistants? What do pupils have to say? This wide ranging and insightful book presents the views of pupils, parents and the community, teachers, teaching assistants and advisers. All are in one London borough, Enfield, but the views captured here are relevant to educational practitioners working in multiethnic and multilingual schools everywhere.
Anyone working in a culturally diverse secondary school needs this book. It will also be valuable to teacher trainers, students and policy makers.
Penny Travers is an Ethnic Minority Achievement Adviser in the London borough of Enfield. Gillian Klein is an author, publisher and founder editor of the long-running journal Race Equality Teaching. The other contributors are John Broadbent, Janet Campbell, Mala German, Alison Heap, Lesley Higgs, Vasant Mahandru, Marcia Sinclair, Deborah Thompson, Giang Vo, Graham Went.
'...written by practitioners in Enfieldwhose specialist service has earned a deserved reputation for being at the forefront in this vital field. Read this and you can see why.' - Tim Brighouse in the Times Educational Supplement
'The prime value of this book is that is contains exiting work clearly described and reflected on, that will be directly useful to teachers and advisers.' - Educational Review
