Babington Academy in Leicester

Autor/in	Penfold, Mark
Titel	Babington Academy in Leicester
Quelle	In: Intercultural Education, 29 (2018) 5-6, S.627-631 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-5986
DOI	10.1080/14675986.2018.1500185
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Multicultural Education; Immigrants; Ethnicity; Minority Group Students; Inclusion; Special Schools; Heritage Education; Culturally Relevant Education; Educational Strategies; Outcomes of Education; Student Diversity; Secondary School Students; United Kingdom (Leicester) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Ethnizität; Inklusion; Special school; Sonderschule; Lehrstrategie; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sekundarschüler
Abstract	This article examines a school in the United Kingdom (UK) when they started receiving students of Roma heritage. Babington Academy is a multicultural state school in the city of Leicester. They serve pupils born in Leicester and new arrivals direct from overseas. In 2008, pupils started to arrive from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The school was experienced in helping new arrivals unused to learning in English settle, engage and make progress in all subjects. However the school eventually discovered that despite the Slovak and Czech passports, these pupils saw their identity and ethnicity as Roma. Further research showed that Roma are Europe's most discriminated ethnic minority and in the countries of origin, most are sent to special schools with a heavily reduced curriculum. Nearly all finished full-time education by 15 without qualifications and low levels of literacy. This made the Roma pupils reluctant to buy emotionally into education and quick to adopt instant defensive positions whenever clashes of perceptions arose. However the school made some reasonable adjustments, and 10 years on the school has four of the Roma pupils holding university places to study Law, Psychology, Architecture and Leisure and Tourism, and next more than half their Roma pupis are on track to get top General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) grades. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01