Provision, purpose and pedagogy in a Bengali supplementary school.

This paper, based on the results of a small pilot study of a Bengali supplementary school, discusses the features of the school in relation to other studies of supplementary 'mother-tongue' schools and goes on to explore the pedagogy of the school, its relationship with other sites and spaces of learning and the implications of these for the school. There is a particular focus on the 'pull of the English primary school' in the desires and practices of the Bengali school educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]