Background of Immigrant Children

<p>First published in 1971 <i>The Background of Immigrant Children</i> offers a deeper understanding of the diversity and richness of the customs cultures and religious convictions of the minority groups in a multiracial society. Ivor Morrish argues that in order to go beyond the mere tolerance of the other groups it is becoming one of the important functions of the teacher to assist in the development of social awareness in his pupils and this must include a sympathetic involvement in the cultural ideas and outlook of groups from all over the world. This book is an attempt to introduce the teacher in training to three of the main coloured immigrant groups in Britain (West Indians Indians and Pakistanis) and to some of the problems that culture contact poses. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of education multiculturalism sociology and social anthropology. </p>