Starting school: young children learning cultures. By Liz Brooker. (Open University Press, 15.99, 01280 823388). Reviewed by Jennie Lindon, early years consultant
Liz Brooker has written a thoughtful book, drawing on her postgraduate research in order to make practical points about home-school links and diversity of background. The author tracked 16 children and their families from Bangladeshi and Anglo families over the course of their reception year in the same class.
The author came to the research as an experienced primary school teacher, and she is supportive of the task of the reception team. Yet her close involvement with the families, as well as the class, enables her to document in detail how widely the experience differed for individual families. One issue was to what extent parents really understood what was wanted by the reception team and how the early years curriculum worked.
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