Gill Crozier, Jane Davies
In the authors' research with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage parents, some teachers, head teachers and other educational professionals referred to the South Asian parents as ‘hard to reach’. Whilst it was clear from the parents that they were not very, and in some cases not at all, involved in t...
Gill Crozier, Jane Davies
This paper looks beyond an individualised type of parental involvement and discusses the role of the extended family in relation to school. We draw on the different social capital theories to explain its implications and also to discuss its efficacy. Our focus is on the Bangladeshi community and the...
Gill Crozier
This article explores teacher expectations of second-generation UK South Asian students (of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage) and their views of the parents as lacking high aspirations for their children. A range of misguided perceptions and stereotypical views are discussed and challenged. The au...
N. Dulvy, K. K. Bineesh, K Akhilesh, Danielle H. Derrick et al.
The Indian Sharpnose Ray (Telatrygon crozieri) is a small (to 40 cm disc width) ray occurring in the \nnorthern Indian Ocean, in India and Bangladesh, and possibly Pakistan. It is demersal on the inner \ncontinental shelf from the surface down to a depth of 50 m. It is captured in shrimp tra...
Kamal Singh
Difference and Diversity in Schools and Higher Education is a collection of essays by educational researchers from Europe, North America, and Australia.The editors feel that although there is considerable scholarly work on social equality and education, little recent work explores notions of differe...
Peter Stevens, Gill Crozier
This chapter offers a systematic review of sociological research in England on the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality between 1980 and 2010. Five major research traditions are identified: (1) political arithmetic; (2) racism and racial discrimination; (3) school effective...
Norman R. Bennett, Simon Ditchfiel, Thomas Munck, A. R. Disney et al.
TIM UNWIN. Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade. London and New York: Roudedge, 1991. Pp. xvi, 409. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Norman R. Bennett MASK GREENGHASS, ed. Conquest and Coalescence: The Shaping of the State in Early Modem Europe. London: Edward Arnold,...