Description
| Product ID: | 9781529063752 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | I Heard What You Said |
| Subtitle: | A Black Teacher, A White System |
| Authors: | Author: Jeffrey Boakye |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Social discrimination and social justice, Moral and social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Counselling and care of students, Secondary schools, Memoirs, Social discrimination & inequality, Moral & social purpose of education, Multicultural education, Education: care & counselling of students, Secondary schools, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid to call out some of the most pressing issues of our times, this sharp analysis of racism in education is also a vision for how to do better by all our students. <p><b>Shortlisted for the Bread & Roses Award<br>An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year<br><br>‘Essential reading‘ </b>– <i>The</i> <i>Guardian</i><br><b>‘Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour‘ </b>– <i>The i</i><br><b>‘Revealing and beautifully written‘</b> – David Harewood<br>_____<br><br><b>A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.<br><br>???????</b>Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration – from the outside looking in.<br><br>In the groundbreaking <i>I Heard What You Said,</i> he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms.<br><br>Told through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him – from ‘Can you rap?‘ and ‘Have you been in prison?‘ to ‘Stephen who?‘ – Boakye reflects with passion and wit on what he has found out about the presumptions, silences and distortions that underpin the experience of black students and teachers.<br>_____<br><br><b>‘Hugely important‘ </b>– Baroness Lawrence<br><b>‘Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential‘ </b>– Nels Abbey<br><b>‘Makes a powerful case‘ </b>– Rt Hon Lady Hale</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-25 |