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With the help of an educational psychologist and activist, Kingsley’s mum learns that there is racial bias within the system preventing Black children from receiving the same level of education as their white counterparts, and the two work together to challenge it.
Dec 9, 2020 · Education explores a school system in 1970s and ’80s Britain which was rigged against black working-class children; an infrastructure tainted by a deeply entrenched cultural bias. It was ...
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Dec 21, 2020 · ‘Small Axe: Education’ reveals the way the education system intentionally wanted Black and Disabled children to fail. The film has contemporary relevance today. It shows us how structural racism and disablism happened and still happens (refer to ‘Timpson review on School Exclusion’ ).
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Dec 13, 2020 · By basing the final film in his Small Axe series, “Education”, on his own experiences, Steve McQueen reveals how black children have the odds stacked against them from day one.
In a BBC press release, the film's executive producer, Tracey Scoffield, confirmed Education is based around a real-life and "very particular set of circumstances" which occurred in Haringey,...
Dec 6, 2020 · In several installments of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology, the racism leveled against London’s West Indian population is an overt threat. In “ Education ,” it simmers in the ...
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Dec 11, 2020 · Set in the 1970s, this 63-minute film focuses on a 12-year-old, Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), who appears “normal” enough to our eyes, but is singled out by the administration as inferior to his...
