| Description | Tracks 1 - 2: Actuality with Avtar Jouhl, Smethwick, Birmingham and Charles Parker. Mr Jouhl speaks about his experience of being educated in India, and comments on why his children have not opted to go to university. Mr Jouhl talks about how young people feel discouraged from staying in education because of the unemployment situation in Britain at the time.
Tracks 3 - 7: Actuality with Mrs Carter, a Jamaican born woman from Birmingham, with Charles Parker. Mrs Carter speaks about her experience of the education system in Jamaica. Mrs Carter talks about why she came to Britain and describes her experiences on arriving and then getting married. She discusses her children's progress at school.
Tracks 8 - 15: Actuality with Mr Gayle, an African Caribbean man with Charles Parker. The man talks about the provisions there are to cater for immigrant children in the British education system. Mrs Carter re-joins the conversation from track 9, and describes her daughter's experience of the transition between primary and secondary school. Her daughter then joins the discussion from track 12 and discusses her experience of secondary school, with reference to the treatment of African Caribbean boys by the teachers. She discusses how history is taught at her school and what it covers; her mother talks about how history was taught to her in Jamaica. Mr Gayle talks about the absence of the recognition of black achievement through history in the curriculum. The group discuss the problem of their children's self-identity as Jamaican or English or both.
Total: 33.00 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0107280 |