Mind the Gap

Subject:
Performing Arts

Led by:
Lewisham College

Project partner:
Rose Bruford College

Online materials:

To read the project report, click here.

Outline:
In Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell speaks about a ‘culture of possibility’ where successful people achieve their success as a by-product of:

“…history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky – but all critical to making them who they are.”

Project Manager Lisa Stubbs claims that one of the disadvantages tripping up a great many of our F.E. students is a lack of parental, family and peer support, often due to cultural, economic and class barriers.

This ‘Mind the Gap’ project has tried to formalise and structure a ‘web of advantages’ - previously managed in an ad hoc and informal way by tutors at Lewisham College who act, in many ways, as surrogate parents. 

Resources also available in hard copy

Main Contact:
Lisa Stubbs - Programme Area Leader: Drama & Media - lisa.stubbs@lewisham.ac.uk / 020 8692 0353 ext 4039