| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | This tape contains two interviews. In the first recording, Marina Foster interviews a Bengali language worker. The teacher discusses her work in teaching Bengali. She talks about encouraging the children, who already had some knowledge of Bengali from their parents, to have pride in their language and written work, and how she teaches the different sounds of Bengali. She encountered issues of literacy; involved parents in the process; encouraged children to buy books; talked to them about their memories. She talks about her own memories of fruit supplies pre and post partition of India.
The second recording is another interview with the same teacher also at MF/3/11/7&8. He talks about scaled posts, Curriculum Support Teams, and developing the curriculum while focussing on language. This recording appears to have been made in early 1982.
A digitised copy of this recording is available. (Length of recording - 56 mins 20 sec) |