British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
BA PDF Symposium 200626 April 2006 AbstractsDr Gillian EvansEducational Failure and Working Class White Children in BritainIn the light of recent reports in the press about the numbers of primary school children in Britain who are leaving primary school without having gained even the most basic education, Dr Evans will present a summary of her (soon to be published) monograph in which she addresses the issue from an anthropological perspective. Dr Gillian Evans is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (CFAR) at Brunel University.
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