A supplementary school is a community-based initiative to provide additional educational support for children also attending mainstream schools. They are often geared to provide specific language, cultural and religious teaching for children from ethnic minorities.[1]
Supplementary schools by ethnicity
editBlack supplementary schools in the UK
editA movement for Black supplementary schools started in Britain in the mid-1960s, first among the African-Caribbean communities, and then among other African communities. After a leaked report from the Inner London Education Authority revealed that children of West Indian immigrants were being labelled "Educationally Sub-Normal" (ESN), educationist Bernard Coard published his 1971 book How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System, which led to parents setting up supplementary Saturday schools to support their children's education.[2][3] The movement arose from the view that racism was holding children from African-Caribbean communities back, and the schools primarily addressed two issues: the provision of basic education, along with a specific cultural programme.[4] The George Padmore Institute maintains an archive of material relating to this movement.[5]
Japanese supplementary schools worldwide
editHoshū jugyō kō are Japanese supplementary schools in developed overseas countries supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Supplementary Education". NRCSE. National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "The Black Supplementary School Movement Is As Essential As It's Ever Been". Black Ballad. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ Mahon, Leah (14 March 2021). "Steve McQueen praises black parents who exposed 'subnormal' schools ahead of new BBC documentary about the scandal". The Voice. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ CERS (26 January 2015). "It's time for Black Schools: Lessons from the Black supplementary school movement : Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies". Cers.leeds.ac.uk. University of Leeds. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "About the George Padmore Institute", LKJ Records, 17 December 2008.
- ^ Goodman, Roger. "The changing perception and status of kikokushijo." In: Goodman, Roger, Ceri Peach, Ayumi Takenaka, and Paul White (editors). Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities. Routledge, 27 June 2005. p. 179. "Official policy (see Monbusho, 1985) was that Nihonjingakko should be set up in developing countries, hoshuko in the developed world."