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Chapter 4 is the first chapter in Part II of the book, which focuses on the key purposes of supplementary schools. In particular this chapter looks closely at the themes of survival and safeguarding, the two most predominant school purposes. Survival here refers to the efforts made by schools to preserve specific aspects of the community identity. This was often intertwined with safeguarding where schools would attempt to protect elements of the community identity from external threats. For instance, the chapter discusses the dynamics of linguistic preservation and the safeguarding of community languages against the increasingly dominant force of the English language. Schools efforts are also discussed here.
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Simon, A. (2018). Survival and Safeguarding. In: Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50057-1_4
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