Sally Tomlinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139582 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sally Tomlinson |
| NOMBRES | Sally |
| APELLIDO | Tomlinson |
| FIRMA | TOMLINSON S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
In memoriam
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement. It considers the relationship between housing class and class formations and co…
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Rule Britannia
Books on Brexit explaining how and why parts of Britain voted to leave the European Union are falling hot off the press. Some promise the full story of the political manoeuvring that got us to this point, others promise to make sense of the vote, with a couple focusing on the supposed evils of immigration and Islam. In Rule Britainnia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson tell a different story. They argue that the EU referendum was part of a last g…
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education
Enoch Powell, empires, immigrants and education
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, an intervention that is still viewed as one of the most incendiary statements of the perceived decay and violence likely to follow legislation intended to assure minoritised British citizens of equal rights regardless of their ethnic origin. In this essay, Sally Tomlinson (one of Britain’s foremost multicultural theorists) reflects on Powell’s legacy and the cont…
Special education and minority ethnic young people in England
In countries that have developed special education (SE) provision, whether in segregated settings or 'included' in mainstream, racial, ethnic and immigrant minorities continue to be disproportionately represented. Explanations for placement in SE programmes continue to centre round assumptions of deficiencies in student abilities to learn and 'behave', their family backgrounds and communities. Many policy-makers, politicians, schools and teachers…
Special education and globalisation
Over the past 30 years, inclusive education has become the dominant discourse in the field of special educational needs (SEN) across the developed and developing world, reflected in the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Educational Needs (UNESCO, 1994), the Dakar Framework for Action: Education for All (UNESCO, 2000) and the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention includes a commitment t…
R ex, J ohn (1926–2011)
Professor John Rex raised the study of sociology, social theory, and race and ethnic relations to new scholarly levels, inspiring many scholars and activists around the world through his teaching and writing. From his upbringing in apartheid South Africa to his founding, in England, of two sociology departments and a center for the study of race and ethnic relations, he remained committed throughout his life to ideals of social justice and fairne…
The empire disintegrates
This short article comments on the Symposium in ERS vol. 37/10 in which current scholars revisited the book The Empire Strikes Back and its legacy. The article comments on the book's assertion that a historical background is necessary to understand the absorption of migrant labour into capitalist societies, and notes the prevailing ignorance of the history of imperialism in UK schools and society. It discusses the current assumptions that if scho…
Michael Banton's critique of John Rex's 'mistakes
This paper asserts that academics, unless they work for or in malign regimes, do not make 'mistakes', but work within their own historical period using their knowledge of past thinking. Thus, debates on race, ethnicity, race relations and so on, and the plethora of competing definitions and approaches, take place within specific historical times. The paper notes that for John Rex, racism was always the problem, to be defined and explained. It rev…
Social Justice and Lower Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy
National governments believe that higher levels of educational attainments and training are necessary for successful competition in knowledge-driven economies and all young people are urged to invest in their own human capital and learn new skills. Moves towards inclusive education have brought into mainstream schools and colleges many who would formerly have been segregated in special schooling or otherwise given minimum education, joining those…
Comparing special education
Comparing special education: origins to contemporary paradoxes, by John G. Richardson and Justin J.W. Powell, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2011, 360 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8
John Rex
A tribute to Len Barton
This article constitutes a short personal tribute to Len Barton in honour of his work and our collegial relationship going back over 30 years. It covers how Len saw his intellectual project of providing critical sociological and political perspectives on special education, disability and inclusion, and his own radical political perspectives. Len’s challenges to prevailing notions of individual deficiencies of intellect, and disability as a person…
Race and Education
Introduction
New Labour and education
This article documents some of New Labour's education policies which, despite a rhetoric of inclusion, have largely ensured that education remains divided and divisive. Continuing faith in market choice and competition; continuing selection by private, grammar and specialist schools; a ‘diversity’ of schools with unequal intakes and resources; a standards agenda that requires more testing, assessment and centralised control of teachers and the cu…
Disability in Somaliland
Civil war lasting into the 1990s destroyed much of Somalia's economic, political and social structures, and conflict still continues in the southern areas of the country. In 1991, the northwest region declared itself the Independent Republic of Somaliland, established a government in Hargeisa and is struggling to rebuild an infrastructure. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking high on the UN hunger index, and is the third most …
Education Policy, 1997-2000
This article links the divisive education policies of the early 1990s, pursued by New Labour after 1997, with the continued reproduction of a class structure relatively unchanged despite the economic, political and cultural transformation of post-industrial England. It briefly overviews New Labour's education policies, including a list of Acts, Reports and initiatives 1997-2000 in an Appendix. It notes the divisive effects on class structures of …
New Inequalities? Educational Markets and Ethnic Minorities
In post‐colonial societies the educational performance of minority students often lags behind the majority, and the failure of educational systems to deliver equal access and educational success to minorities remains a source of tension and conflict. Educational inequalities persist, especially now that strategies to alleviate unequal treatment are being abandoned in some countries. In other countries, notably Britain, new forms of inequality are…
Sociological perspectives on failing schools
This paper explores the genesis of the failing schools movement which developed in Britain in the 1990s. The failing schools legislation was political in origin in that it was intended to create more grant-maintained schools in Labour-controlled local education authorities. It was also the obverse of the effective schools movement which became, in the 1990s, a pervasive influence on politicians, educational policy-makers and practitioners. The pa…
Advances in the Sociology of Disability
(1997). Advances in the Sociology of Disability. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 129-132
Home — School Relationships
This article examines a number of connecting themes concerning home‐school relations over the last 20 years. We argue that the position of parents in relation to the education system can be seen as an instructive case study for the broader trends and shifts in the relationship between citizens and public sector institutions. As such we conclude that the important developments, upon which future analysis should concentrate, are those where parents…
Racism and Antiracism in Real Schools
Part 1 Race, research and policy: discourse and policy racism and research theorizing identity and antiracism. Part 2 Race and educational practice: the politics of school change antiracism and the whole school antiracism in the classroom student perspectives conclusion - rethinking racism and antiracism
Home — School Relationships
This article examines a number of connecting themes concerning home‐school relations over the last 20 years. We argue that the position of parents in relation to the education system can be seen as an instructive case study for the broader trends and shifts in the relationship between citizens and public sector institutions. As such we conclude that the important developments, upon which future analysis should concentrate, are those where parents…
Enoch Powell, empires, immigrants and education
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, an intervention that is still viewed as one of the most incendiary statements of the perceived decay and violence likely to follow legislation intended to assure minoritised British citizens of equal rights regardless of their ethnic origin. In this essay, Sally Tomlinson (one of Britain’s foremost multicultural theorists) reflects on Powell’s legacy and the cont…
Ethnicity and Educational Attainment in England
This article notes some characteristics of ethnic minority groups in Britain, notably those originating from the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean, reviews some issues and research relating to the educational performance and attainments of minority pupils, and focuses on a longitudinal study of 20 multiethnic schools carried out during the 1980s. This study suggested that the school a child attends makes more difference to performance and att…
The educational performance of ethnic minority children
Special education and minority ethnic young people in England
In countries that have developed special education (SE) provision, whether in segregated settings or 'included' in mainstream, racial, ethnic and immigrant minorities continue to be disproportionately represented. Explanations for placement in SE programmes continue to centre round assumptions of deficiencies in student abilities to learn and 'behave', their family backgrounds and communities. Many policy-makers, politicians, schools and teachers…
Sociological perspectives on failing schools
This paper explores the genesis of the failing schools movement which developed in Britain in the 1990s. The failing schools legislation was political in origin in that it was intended to create more grant-maintained schools in Labour-controlled local education authorities. It was also the obverse of the effective schools movement which became, in the 1990s, a pervasive influence on politicians, educational policy-makers and practitioners. The pa…
The Political Economy of Special Educational Needs in Britain
This article raises questions as to how far young people regarded as having special educational needs or disabilities are prepared for participation in the economy. It focuses on those aspects of the further education curriculum that emphasises skills, and the development of National Vocational Qualifications which emphasise competences. Those with special educational needs or disabilities are part of a larger group of young people to be 'managed…
Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged
This article describes the way in which policies in a local education authority actually worked to disadvantage a group of children already suffering gross disadvantages. During the 1980's 1LEA was unable to provide sufficient school places for children in Tower Hamlets, 95% of the resulting ‘out‐of‐school’ children being of Bangladeshi origin. The article records the efforts of the Tower Hamlets Law Centre to register a complaint on behalf of th…
Introduction
New Inequalities? Educational Markets and Ethnic Minorities
In post‐colonial societies the educational performance of minority students often lags behind the majority, and the failure of educational systems to deliver equal access and educational success to minorities remains a source of tension and conflict. Educational inequalities persist, especially now that strategies to alleviate unequal treatment are being abandoned in some countries. In other countries, notably Britain, new forms of inequality are…
Education Policy, 1997-2000
This article links the divisive education policies of the early 1990s, pursued by New Labour after 1997, with the continued reproduction of a class structure relatively unchanged despite the economic, political and cultural transformation of post-industrial England. It briefly overviews New Labour's education policies, including a list of Acts, Reports and initiatives 1997-2000 in an Appendix. It notes the divisive effects on class structures of …
The empire disintegrates
This short article comments on the Symposium in ERS vol. 37/10 in which current scholars revisited the book The Empire Strikes Back and its legacy. The article comments on the book's assertion that a historical background is necessary to understand the absorption of migrant labour into capitalist societies, and notes the prevailing ignorance of the history of imperialism in UK schools and society. It discusses the current assumptions that if scho…
Assessing Special Educational Needs
This article is concerned with the role of the child in assessments under the 1981 Education Act. It focuses on the implications of the child's contribution for professional practice. Despite the recommendations of the DES in Circular 22/89 that the feelings and perceptions of the child should be taken into account and that the concept of partnership should be extended to children and young people, in practice the child's contribution is often mi…
Michael Banton's critique of John Rex's 'mistakes
This paper asserts that academics, unless they work for or in malign regimes, do not make 'mistakes', but work within their own historical period using their knowledge of past thinking. Thus, debates on race, ethnicity, race relations and so on, and the plethora of competing definitions and approaches, take place within specific historical times. The paper notes that for John Rex, racism was always the problem, to be defined and explained. It rev…
Race, Class and Political Activism - A Study of West Indians in Britain
Social Justice and Lower Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy
National governments believe that higher levels of educational attainments and training are necessary for successful competition in knowledge-driven economies and all young people are urged to invest in their own human capital and learn new skills. Moves towards inclusive education have brought into mainstream schools and colleges many who would formerly have been segregated in special schooling or otherwise given minimum education, joining those…
A tribute to Len Barton
This article constitutes a short personal tribute to Len Barton in honour of his work and our collegial relationship going back over 30 years. It covers how Len saw his intellectual project of providing critical sociological and political perspectives on special education, disability and inclusion, and his own radical political perspectives. Len’s challenges to prevailing notions of individual deficiencies of intellect, and disability as a person…
Cultural diversity and schooling
J. Lynch, C. Modgil, S. Modgil, 1992, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOLS: VOL. ONE. EDUCATION FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE, London, The Falmer Press, 461 pp., £55.00. J. Lynch, C. Modgil, S. Modgil, 1992, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOLS: VOL. TWO. PREJUDICE, POLEMIC OR PROGRESS, London, The Falmer Press, 409 pp., £55.00. J. Lynch, C. Modgil, S. Modgil, 1992, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOLS: VOL. THREE. EQUITY OR EXCELL…
The Assessment of Special Educational Needs and the Proletarianisation of Professionals
This article reports our recent ESRC funded research on the identification of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties under the procedures of the 1981 Education Act. It is argued that the concepts of 'deskilling' and 'proletarianisation' provide a useful framework of analysis when examining the role of teachers and other professionals involved in the assessment process. However, we discuss evidence suggesting that negotiations betwee…
Effective schooling for ethnic minorities
Educational credentials will become increasingly crucial in the urban technological societies of the 1990s, not least for ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority families have been widely perceived as contributing to the reputed under‐achievement of their children, while they themselves have questioned the inability of schools to provide their children with an effective education. This article describes a study carried out in 20 multi‐racial secondary…
Special educational needs
This paper summarizes the major recommendations of the Select Committee's report on the implementation of the 1981 Special Education Act. It notes that the committee were unhappy with the implementation of the Act so far, particularly the failure of local education authorities to produce clear, coherent policies on special educational needs. The background to the report, policy recommendations on parental involvement, integration, resources, asse…
Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Britain
West Indian children and ESN schooling
(1978). West Indian children and ESN schooling. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 235-242
Beneath the Surface; An account of three styles of Sociological Research
Housing, employment, education and race relations in Birmingham
(1977). Housing, employment, education and race relations in Birmingham. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1-2, pp. 123-126
West Indian children and ESN schooling
(1978). West Indian children and ESN schooling. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 235-242
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Britain
The educational performance of ethnic minority children
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
A Note on the Education of Ethnic Minority Children in Britain
A note on the Education of Ethnic Minority Children in Britain
Minority group children in significant numbers first began to enter schools in Britain in late 1950s and early 1960s. Their parents were immigrants from former colonial countries in various stages of attaining independence?notably West Indies, Asian sub-continent, East Africa and Cyprus. Small numbers of Chinese children had been in school system from 1930s, and postwar migration of European workers to Britain, notably from Italy, Poland and Spai…
Race, Class and Political Activism - A Study of West Indians in Britain
Doing Good by Doing Little
The Educational needs of ethnic minority children
The concept of ‘need’ is currently popular in education. It is, as Dearden (1972) has pointed out, an attractive concept for educationalists, because it appears to offer an escape from arguments about values and about power. Those who uncritically accept the doctrine of needs can assume that there are educational experts who can unproblematically decide on needs, which can then be unproblematically catered for. Thus, when ethnic minority children…
Educational Subnormality
First published in 1981. Based on a three-year study of children moving into special ESN-M education in an English city in the mid-1970s, this book questions the whole concept of mild educational subnormality by examining the criteria according to which professionals make decisions to place children within this stigmatised category. It suggests that the beliefs that the professionals hold about the behavioural, family and class characteristics of…
The educational performance of children of Asian origin
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Colonial Immigrants in a British City
Short reviews
Paul Brass (ed.), ETHNIC GROUPS AND THE STATE, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1985, 341 pp., £17.95. Philip Mason, A THREAD OF SILK: FURTHER MEMORIES OF A VARIED LIFE, Michael Russell, 1984, London, 207 pp, £9.95. Colin Clarke, David Ley and Ceri Peach (eds), GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNIC PLURALISM, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1984, 311 pp., £8.95. Paul B. Rich, WHITE POWER AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE, Manchester University Press, 1984, 192 pp., £18.50. …
Books
British thinking about race before and after 1945 Paul B. Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1986,272 pp., £25. Reassessing the ‘black presence’ in English literature David Dabydeen (ed.), The Black Presence in English Literature, Manchester University Press, 1985, 214 pp.. £5.95 pb. 1 The Colonial Encounter: A Reading of Six Novels (Rex Collings, 1977). 2 The Study of Literature in an African University was pu…
Women Who Teach in Universities
Towards A.D.2000
Short reviews
Katherine O'Sullivan See, FIRST WORLD NATIONALISMS: CLASS AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND QUEBEC, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1986, 215 pp. £25.50 (h.b.); £10.25 (p.b.) Gundara, J., Jones, C. and Kimberley, K., (eds.), RACISM, DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986, pp. 192. £4.95. Vivienne Coombe and Alan Little (eds): RACE AND SOCIAL WORK, A GUIDE TO TRAINING, London: Tavistock Publications,…
A major multicultural text (a review article)
Monica J. Taylor with Seamus Hegarty, The Best of Both Worlds?‐A Review of Research into the Education of Pupils of South Asian Origin, NFER‐Nelson, 1985, 610pp., £24 h.b
Education and training
Sociology (64 obras) · Political science (52 obras) · Law (34 obras) · Education Systems and Policy (25 obras) · Gender Studies (24 obras) · Law (23 obras) · Psychology (23 obras) · Ethnic group (18 obras) · Pedagogy (18 obras) · Politics (18 obras)