A Journey with Bernard Coard
What the last 50 years have taught us since the publication of How the West Indian Child is made educationally sub-normal in the British School System
The video recording of the conversation between Bernard Coard and Dave Neita is now available
On 4 November 2021, Bernard Coard was in conversation with Dave Neita, a lawyer, published poet, lecturer and international public speaker. This was a follow-up session to the launch of the 50th-anniversary edition of How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System.
That groundbreaking study, first published in 1971, provided an understanding to Caribbean and working-class parents of the obstacles they faced in the limited educational opportunities open to their children.… Read on ...