ABSTRACT
The paucity of research on teacher-pupil interaction, teacher expectation and social relationships between pupils, particularly in the multiracial school context, confirms the HMI's claim that 'little is actually known about race relations in schools'. In the field of education, for instance, the assumed relationship between 'race' and mental ability continues to occupy a place in educational discourse. Progress has already been made in the education service in order to achieve the above objectives. During the period of the study the school was frequently in contact with the local education authority specialist services for multicultural education. The school playground had been brightened by a mural of the different groups of children in the school at play. Subsequent work, notably the report of the Swann Committee, talked of poor 'race relations' both in multiracial schools and schools with few black children.
