Power and control in the multi‐ethnic school: Towards a conceptual model

Bullivant, Brian M.

doi:10.1080/01419870.1982.9993360

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“…A good deal of evidence is now available to show that Muslims in particular are dissatisfied with the kind of education provided in state schools (Anwar, 1979;Bullivant, 1982;Jeffery, 1976;Kitwood & Borrill, 1980). Difficulties are reported concerning the segregation of Muslim girls after the age of puberty and there are difficult questions of dress, food and physical education.…”

Section: 'Normal Science' As a Model For The Education Of Ethnic Minomentioning

confidence: 93%

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Kuhn and Popper as Contrasting Models for the Education of Ethnic Minority Pupils

Burtonwood

1985

Educational Review

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Contrasting models of education and curriculum derived from the Kuhn-Popper debate on the nature of science are suggested as a basis for considering the kind of curriculum most suited to the needs of pupils from ethnic minority groups. 'Normal science' is presented as a form of community education with a curriculum designed to transmit culture and thereby initiate pupils into a 'way of seeing'. This, it is argued, is the approach of the secessionist school; it is an education for certainty.A critical and culturally transformative curriculum derived from Popper's fallibilist epistemology is offered as an alternative approach which deliberately eschews certainties and puts pupils into a culture contact situation where there is great educative potential. Here the learner has to tolerate doubt and develop an attitude of ambivalence to culture. Nothing is certain anymore.In conclusion a series of studies of the curriculum written in the 1950s by Musgrove and deriving from his teaching experience in Uganda is presented as suggestive of ways of exploiting the creativity of culture contact in the classroom. It is argued that there are some lessons here for multicultural education.

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Section: 'Normal Science' As a Model For The Education Of Ethnic Minomentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The gap between the English school and the Muslim community is sufficiently great for Bullivant (1982) to describe the Muslim child as experiencing "enculturation dissonance". Teachers and parents are said to be presenting the child with very different versions of reality.…”

Section: 'Normal Science' As a Model For The Education Of Ethnic Minomentioning

confidence: 98%