| Description | Documents collected by Vanley Burke concerning the formal education and extra curricular initiatives for black children and lifelong learning for black communities. The majority of the material is from Britain. The community initiatives featured in this series include the Afro-Caribbean Education Resource Project's Essay Competition (MS 2192/C/B/1/4/1) and the African Caribbean Self Help Organisation (MS 2192/C/B/1/4/2) who ran Sankofa Sesh Summer School (also see MS 2192/C/D/1/1/1).
The types of document include annual reports, conference programmes, correspondence, flyers and posters, and newsletters.
The sections are:
/1 'Primary and Secondary Education' deals with the experiences of the black child in the school system- with subsections for curriculum material, conferences community action and articles about the black child in the school system, arts initiatives in education and extra-curricular initiatives focusing on black children. More relevant information to the latter subseries can be found in MS 2192/C/D (Community Focus Awareness and Activity).
/2 'Further and Adult Education'
/3 'Higher Education', both this section and section /2 contain material about colleges and course aimed specifically at attracting black students or concerning race and ethnic issues.
/4 'Multicultural and Educational Resources', which includes groups , lectures and classes, publishers and book distributors and publications. |