Social Class, Ideology and Identity

Abstract

The research embodied in this book began in the late 1990s when Alice Sawyerr was developing a programme of identity enhancement for preschool children in nurseries in an Inner London Borough. This stemmed from work in a child, adolescent and adult NHS Mental Health clinic which served two distinct areas in the borough – very affluent area and predominantly white (group) population and a multi-ethnic client group from one of the most disadvantaged areas of London.