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The Educational needs of ethnic minority children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Sally Tomlinson
Sally Tomlinson
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Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster
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The concept of ‘need’ is currently popular in education. It is, as Dearden (1972) has pointed out, an attractive concept for educationalists, because it appears to offer an escape from arguments about values and about power. Those who uncritically accept the doctrine of needs can assume that there are educational experts who can unproblematically decide on needs, which can then be unproblematically catered for. Thus, when ethnic minority children began to arrive in British schools in significant numbers in the early 1960s, it was assumed that the schools—without experience or understanding of other cultures—could make an assessment of the needs of these children.

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III. Biosocial needs of ethnic minorities
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 15 , supplement S8: Biosocial Aspects of Ethnic Minorities , 1983 , pp. 157 - 166
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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