ABSTRACT
The above quotation is from the Swann Report (DES, 1985), an influential report on the education of children from ethnic minority families in the UK. Published under the title of Education for All, the report emphasised the need to ensure that education not only addressed the particular learning needs of young people regardless of their ethnicity, but it also emphasised the need to teach all young people how to respect ethnic and cultural differences and to accept them as part of the cultural richness of life in our modern world, and not as a threat.
