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In the first extract which comes from the opening of a joint session
between two school groups on Multi-cultural education it is apparent
that the knowledge and experience available in the two schools is
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quite distinct.
School C and B 22.1.82 Pl ei
BM2
One interesting
point when we were speaking
to the Head of Humanities at School B on
Tuesday was they're quite
of the fact that since
black kids in the school
aware of the problem
there are over 50%
cultural work is geared towards those kids
and being aware of the need to integrate a
programme of Caribbean studies was because
of those kids in the school and we brought
up the point of possible alienation or resent-
ment of working class white kids - you know
- what’s so special because we've got black
kids in school we now start talking about
their history and almost reify their culture,
what about working class culture. We broached
that topic with them. That's something
they're aware of and they're working piecemeal
at
the
moment
that's
something
they
are
considering in the future.
CSS2 Do they feel that is the response they are
getting from the white kids?
BM2
CSSl
We asked him that and I
really - he said he was
a possibility -
What about the response
being introduced for.
think he said 'Yes'
aware of that being
of the kids, it is
BM2 The black kids -
CSSl
that's something we
touched on briefly
before that perhaps there's sort of what basic-
ally
them
are
turn
token gestures to sort of pacify
them off
just as much happens with
the white kids.
BSS2 But no, they don't do that stuff in isolation
- I haven’t seen a scheme set out of exactly
what they do but the impression you get from
going into classes is that it's an inter-
national perspective rather than just the
Caribbean.