Education for cultural diversity : the challenge for a new era
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Education for cultural diversity : the challenge for a new era
Routledge, 1993
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The publication of the Swann report, "Education for All", in 1985 was supposed to inaugurate a new era of equal opportunities for all. While there have been local improvements, the overall situation has changed little: achievement levels for children from different minority groups are still widening, the number of West Indian students getting degrees is proportionately low and we have yet to identify the ways in which schools can most effectively change attitudes and reduce racial prejudice. This volume begins with a paper from Lord Swann himself reflecting on the making of the report and the response of the government over time. Other specially written papers then examine the opportunities and the conflicts created by the Education Reform Act and other government policies over the past five years. From a variety of view points the contributors look at the effects of legislation within schools - at the teaching of subjects within the National Curriculum, at resourcing policies and at the management of change at local authority and at school level.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Context: cultural diversity
- social reality and education
- multicultural or anti-racist education - the irrelevant debate
- education and cultural diversity in the United States. Part 2 The whole curriculum: personal and social education-diversity considered
- arts education and cultural diversity
- the place of drama in intercultural education
- multicultural mathematics
- science in the national curriculum
- developing an anti racist and multicultural perspective
- cultures, literatures and English
- history and the challenge of multicultural education
- geography and multicultural education
- language and cultural diversity
- religious education and the education reform act. Part 3 Equality of opportunity: Caribbean-heritage pupils in Britain - educational performance and inequality
- traveller education
- structural response to cultural diversity
- the post-sixteen education of young black Britons
- dealing with racist incidents in schools
- resourcing the next generation. Part 4 The management of change: the role of local education authorities
- managing change in schools
- a national, nationalistic or transnational curriculum?
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