Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children gifted In editing this volume

In editing this volume

this book uses a range of international case studies to demonstrate that achievement isn’t only reliant on what happens in school and that what happens out of school is equally important

why it’s changing and how to work best with these changes

examine active listening skills

and cultivate resilience in young children

Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children gifted In editing this volumeThis book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from Bourdieu, hooks, Freire, and Giroux, Maylor calls for Black childrens underachievement to be (re)theorised and (re)conceptualised within teacher education,