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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 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.
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 ...
- Wendy Ide
Dec 12, 2020 · Small Axe: Education, will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 9 p.m. The film explores the unofficial segregation policy at play in schools throughout the 1970s and ’80s.
- Sam Ramsden
Dec 18, 2020 · Like the rest of the “Small Axe” films, “Education” takes place in the past but feels exceptionally timely today. It describes a school-to-prison pipeline using schools like Durrants, but also indicts the schools that send children there, often just to get rid of them.
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.
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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’ ).
