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Chapter 3 provides historical context pertaining specifically to supplementary schooling in the UK. This chapter charts the inception and rise of supplementary schools and the corresponding policy movements within mainstream education, focusing mainly on the period from the 1960s to the1980s. The 1960s in particular has great significance in terms of schooling and race relations as it was during this time period that educational policy began to mirror the state’s problematic construction of immigrants from the commonwealth (Grosvenor 1997). The chapter will contextualise the supplementary schooling movement against the backdrop of mainstream policy and practice, looking closely at the circulating agendas within mainstream education that served in limiting opportunities for ethnic minority groups and thereby impelling the rise of supplementary schooling.
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Simon, A. (2018). The History of Supplementary Schooling. In: Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50057-1_3
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