Chris Searle (born 1 January 1944) is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique and Grenada. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s, and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly column on jazz for the left-wing newspaper Morning Star.
Chris Searle was born in Romford, Essex, in 1944. He was a young cricketer for England, and graduated in 1966 from the University of Leeds. That year he went to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where in 1967 he completed an M.A. in English Literature at McMaster University, which included a thesis on the East End of London poet Isaac Rosenberg.[1] He became a schoolteacher in Canada, and then in 1968–69 taught English at a secondary school in Tobago, in the West Indies. His 1972 work The Forsaken Lover: White Words and Black People, which won the Martin Luther King Prize, is based on his experience in Tobago.[2]
Stepney School strike
On returning to England in 1970, Searle taught in the East End, and was involved in the Stepney School strike of 1971[3] in the borough of Tower Hamlets. He was dismissed from the John Cass Foundation and Red Coat School when he published Stepney Words, a collection of his pupils' poems; however, he was reinstated after his pupils went on strike in protest.[4]
Later life
He spent 1977 and 1978 working in Nampula Secondary School in northern Mozambique during the Civil War. His book We're Building the New School! Diary of a Teacher in Mozambique', published in 1981, presents his experiences in diary form.[5]
Searle spent time in the early 1980s in Grenada, and wrote and edited several books about that Caribbean island, including, in 1981, Grenada: Education Is a Must! with Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Bishop had been involved in March 1979 with a coup by the MarxistNew Jewel Movement, which suspended the country's constitution, and established a People's Revolutionary Government. Searle also edited In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop’s speeches 1979–1983.
According to John Berger: "At his best Searle's compassion, anger and sense of historical morality as a storyteller are reminiscent of the early Gorki. I can see no other writer in Britain with whom to compare him."[9]
Bibliography
Stepney Words (editor), 1971
Firewords (editor), 1971 – a national anthology of children's poetry
Poilu: a novel, 1971
Elders: a collection of poems by elder citizens (editor), 1972
The Forsaken Lover: White Words and Black People, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972 (Penguin Books, 1973)
This New Season: Our Class, Our Schools, Our World, 1973
Chris Searle: The Great Includer, October 2009. Special issue of Race and Class, a festschrift on his 65th birthday.
"The Stepney School Strike of 1971", Spitalfields Life, 16 August 2011.
Michael h Baldwin, " Tales for Perspiring Teachers. Chapter 2. Revolution in the air" - In which 900 children go on strike and march to Trafalgar Square.
Fran Abrams, "Sacked radical head doomed to repeat the lessons of history", The Independent, 31 December 1995
"Former head chronicles a passion for jazz and justice" (interview), Sheffield Telegraph, 14 November 2008.
March 04, 2023
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For the English cricketer see Chris Searle cricketer For the British television presenter see Chris Serle Chris Searle born 1 January 1944 is a British educator poet anti racist activist and socialist He has written widely on cricket language jazz race and social justice and has taught in Canada England Tobago Mozambique and Grenada He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s and is on the editorial board of Race amp Class He writes a weekly column on jazz for the left wing newspaper Morning Star Chris SearleSearle in May 2017Born 1944 01 01 1 January 1944 age 79 Romford Essex UKEducationUniversity of Leeds McMaster UniversityOccupation s Teacher writerContents 1 Life 1 1 Stepney School strike 1 2 Later life 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External linksLife EditChris Searle was born in Romford Essex in 1944 He was a young cricketer for England and graduated in 1966 from the University of Leeds That year he went to Hamilton Ontario Canada where in 1967 he completed an M A in English Literature at McMaster University which included a thesis on the East End of London poet Isaac Rosenberg 1 He became a schoolteacher in Canada and then in 1968 69 taught English at a secondary school in Tobago in the West Indies His 1972 work The Forsaken Lover White Words and Black People which won the Martin Luther King Prize is based on his experience in Tobago 2 Stepney School strike Edit On returning to England in 1970 Searle taught in the East End and was involved in the Stepney School strike of 1971 3 in the borough of Tower Hamlets He was dismissed from the John Cass Foundation and Red Coat School when he published Stepney Words a collection of his pupils poems however he was reinstated after his pupils went on strike in protest 4 Later life Edit He spent 1977 and 1978 working in Nampula Secondary School in northern Mozambique during the Civil War His book We re Building the New School Diary of a Teacher in Mozambique published in 1981 presents his experiences in diary form 5 Searle spent time in the early 1980s in Grenada and wrote and edited several books about that Caribbean island including in 1981 Grenada Education Is a Must with Grenada s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop Bishop had been involved in March 1979 with a coup by the Marxist New Jewel Movement which suspended the country s constitution and established a People s Revolutionary Government Searle also edited In Nobody s Backyard Maurice Bishop s speeches 1979 1983 He taught at the Earl Marshal School in Sheffield between 1990 and 1995 6 Later he was a lecturer in education at Goldsmiths College London 7 In 2007 Searle was a visiting social sciences professor at York University Toronto 8 According to John Berger At his best Searle s compassion anger and sense of historical morality as a storyteller are reminiscent of the early Gorki I can see no other writer in Britain with whom to compare him 9 Bibliography EditStepney Words editor 1971 Firewords editor 1971 a national anthology of children s poetry Poilu a novel 1971 Elders a collection of poems by elder citizens editor 1972 The Forsaken Lover White Words and Black People Routledge amp Kegan Paul 1972 Penguin Books 1973 This New Season Our Class Our Schools Our World 1973 Mainland 1973 poems Ferndale Fires a children s story 1974 Classrooms of Resistance Writers and Readers 1975 The Black Man of Shadwell four stories 1976 The World in a Classroom 1977 Beyond the Skin How Mozambique is defeating racism 1979 Grenada Let those who labour hold the reins 1979 interview with Bernard Coard Red Earth Poems 1980 Tales of Mozambique with Chaz Davies and Ruhi Hamid 1980 Bricklight Poems from the Labour Movement in East London editor 1980 Grenada Education Is a Must with Maurice Bishop 1981 Is Freedom We Making The New Democracy in Grenada editor 1981 We re Building the New School Diary of a Teacher in Mozambique Zed Books 1981 Sunflower of Hope Poems from the Mozambican Revolution editor Allison and Busby 1982 Grenada Is Not Alone editor 1982 In the Spirit of Butler trade unionism in free Grenada editor 1982 In the Mainstream of the Revolution editor 1982 To Construct From Morning making the people s budget in Grenada editor 1982 Common Ground 1983 Grenada The Struggle against Destabilization 1983 Wheel Around the World editor 1983 Words Unchained Language and Revolution in Grenada 1984 In Nobody s Backyard Maurice Bishop s speeches 1979 1983 editor Zed Books 1984 Calalloo Stories from Grenada editor 1984 Our City editor 1984 All Our Words 1986 Poems for Peace by Sheffield Schoolchildren editor 1987 Children of Steel A Sheffield Anthology editor 1988 Racism and the Press in Thatcher s Britain with Nancy Murray Institute of Race Relations 1989 Your Daily Dose Racism and the Sun 1989 Grenada Morning a memoir of the revo Karia Press 1989 One for Blair editor 1989 tribute to Blair Peach Remember Hillsborough a memorial anthology co editor with Steve Chew 1990 Freedom Children a tribute in poetry to the children of South Africa from the children of Sheffield editor 1990 A Blindfold Removed Ethiopia s Struggle for Literacy 1991 Outcast England How schools exclude black children with Jenny Bourne and Lee Bridges 1994 Living Community Living School Essays on education in British inner cities 1997 Changing Literacies with Colin Lankshear James Paul Gee and Michele Knobel 1997 None But Our Words Critical Literacy in Classroom and Community 1998 Pitch of Life Writings on Cricket Parrs Wood Press 2001 An Exclusive Education Race Class and Exclusion in British Schools 2002 Lightning of Your Eyes new and selected poems Smokestack Books 2006 Cosmopolis Toronto editor 2007 Tell It Like It Is How our schools fail black children with Bernard Coard and others 2007 Forward Groove Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzman Northway Publications 2008 Toronto Generations editor 2008 Mandela Manchester editor 2009 Doodlebug Boy 2011 Red Groove Five Leaves Publications 2013 Footprints Poems by Peter Blackman editor Smokestack Books 2013References Edit Christopher R Searle Isaac Rosenberg Glimpses of a Plan Terrific thesis McMaster University August 1967 Biographical blurb in The Forsaken Lover Stepney School Strike Spitalfields Life 9 November 2015 Searle Chris 4 April 2017 The story of Stepney Words Race amp Class 58 4 57 75 doi 10 1177 0306396816686281 ISSN 0306 3968 People s Power in Mozambique Angola and Guinea Bissau Issue 19 Mozambique Angola and Guine Information Centre 1982 Burn Chris 23 January 2017 One in six Roma students excluded from school in Sheffield Yorkshire Post Carrington Ben and Ian McDonald eds Race Sport and British Society Routledge 2002 Girard Daniel 22 March 2007 School Bags Packed Full of History Toronto Star Profile of Searle at Inpress publishers External links EditChris Searle The Great Includer October 2009 Special issue of Race and Class a festschrift on his 65th birthday The Stepney School Strike of 1971 Spitalfields Life 16 August 2011 Michael h Baldwin Tales for Perspiring Teachers Chapter 2 Revolution in the air In which 900 children go on strike and march to Trafalgar Square Fran Abrams Sacked radical head doomed to repeat the lessons of history The Independent 31 December 1995 Former head chronicles a passion for jazz and justice interview Sheffield Telegraph 14 November 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chris Searle amp oldid 1141830800, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
