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None But Our Words: Critical
Literacy in Classroom and Community
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We're
Building the New School! Diary of a Teacher in Mozambique'
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between 1990 and 1995. Later he was a lecturer in education at
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Searle, Chris (4 April 2017). "The story of
Stepney Words".
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In Nobody’s Backyard: Maurice Bishop’s speeches 1979–1983
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Bricklight: Poems from the Labour Movement in East London
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In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop’s speeches 1979–1983
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Tell It Like It Is: How our schools fail black children
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Sunflower of Hope: Poems from the Mozambican Revolution
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A Blindfold Removed: Ethiopia's Struggle for Literacy
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Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star
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Outcast England: How schools exclude black children
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Words Unchained: Language and Revolution in Grenada
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Is Freedom We Making': The New Democracy in Grenada
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Beyond the Skin: How Mozambique is defeating racism
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309:Elders: a collection of poems by elder citizens
725:"Isaac Rosenberg: Glimpses of a Plan Terrific"
610:Lightning of Your Eyes: new and selected poems
367:Grenada: "Let those who labour hold the reins"
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554:Remember Hillsborough: a memorial anthology
507:Poems for Peace by Sheffield Schoolchildren
519:Racism and the Press in Thatcher's Britain
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513:Children of Steel: A Sheffield Anthology
220:Searle spent time in the early 1980s in
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535:Grenada Morning: A Memoir of the "Revo"
349:The Black Man of Shadwell: four stories
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855:"School Bags Packed Full of History"
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665:Footprints: Poems by Peter Blackman
529:Your Daily Dose: Racism and the Sun
447:In the Mainstream of the Revolution
687:, Five Leaves Publications, 2022.
598:Pitch of Life: Writings on Cricket
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333:Ferndale Fires: a children's story
205:He spent 1977 and 1978 working in
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973:Alumni of the University of Leeds
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963:20th-century British male writers
891:, October 2009. Special issue of
245:People's Revolutionary Government
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888:Chris Searle: The Great Includer
853:Girard, Daniel (22 March 2007).
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264:Goldsmiths College
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978:British activists
907:, 16 August 2011.
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