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Caribbean Achievement in Britain

Psychosocial Resources and Lived Experiences

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  1. Winniey E. Maduro

    1. Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • Offers insights into the relationship between psychosocial resources and educational attainment
  • Provides empirically informed guidance for improving the lives of members of educationally and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups
  • Proposes that individuals develop psychosocial resources throughout their socialisation, the process through which they learn their culture and how to live in their social world

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Leading Assumptions

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      Pages 3-23

    3. Empirical Insights: Something about What We Know

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      Pages 25-33

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-36
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    2. The Family: Familial Influence

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      Pages 37-54

    3. Community: Community Orientation

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      Pages 55-73

    4. Religion: Religiosity

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      Pages 75-87

    5. Education: Educational Aspiration

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      Pages 89-103

    6. Occupation: Occupational Aspiration

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      Pages 105-119

  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

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    2. Trajectories of Experiences and Outcomes

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      Pages 181-199

    3. Some Important Conclusions and Recommendations

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    4. Afterword

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      Pages 211-218

  6. Back Matter

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About this book

This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains. It offers close insights into the complex relationship between psychosocial resources, such as familial influence, religiosity, aspirations, and socioeconomic progression in Britain. This is achieved by exploring the lived experiences of a sample group of Caribbeans, one of Britain's most internally diverse but discernibly disadvantaged social groups. Detailed accounts of the participants’ experiences are offered to provide insights to a wide range of stakeholders in education. Teachers, behaviour specialists, parents, policy advocates, psychologists, social researchers, social justice warriors and lay people will all benefit from this empirically informed perspective on psychosocial resources and their implications for educational attainment and socioeconomic progress. The book implores the reader to appreciate more fully howpsychosocial resources play out in outcomes of achievement and progression, and how such outcomes may be improved among members of some disadvantaged social groups. It will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators in the fields of Education, Sociology, and Psychology.

Reviews

“Illuminating and compelling! This book is on the cutting edge of exploring new paradigms and generating new insights on psychosocial, resources, personal  values and cultural institutions  that influence and shape positive experiences and outcomes for people of colour from disadvantaged communities. Maduro’s  psychosocial  resources scholarship compliments the growing body of  literature on resiliency and people of African descent. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in or seeking solutions to “how to succeed and make it in spite of…” (Richard Majors, former Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Honorary Professor, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, USA)

“Building on the tradition of black anti-racist activism and critique, Maduro’s important book provides new empirical insights into the educational achievement of Caribbean descent young people in Britain, placing these within the broader context of their lives - family, church, socio-economic position. Using a psycho-social perspective, Maduro’s is a vibrant and challenging account of resilience and success against the odds.” (Claire Alexander, University of Manchester, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Manchester, United Kingdom

    Winniey E. Maduro

About the author

Winniey Maduro is an independent researcher working in the Social Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK, and her research interests include explorations in psychosocial resources, social policy processes, the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantages and poor educational outcomes, mental health service provision and disadvantaged social groups, and decision making within the key social institutions of the family, local community, religion, education and occupation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Caribbean Achievement in Britain

  • Book Subtitle: Psychosocial Resources and Lived Experiences

  • Authors: Winniey E. Maduro

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65476-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65475-1Published: 11 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88038-9Published: 31 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65476-8Published: 24 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 229

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology, Self and Identity

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