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‘They do not relate to Black people like us’: Black teachers as role models for Black pupils

Uvanney Maylor Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1-21 | Received 19 Dec 2007, Accepted 19 Jun 2008, Published online: 22 Jan 2009

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