ABSTRACT
Does the education system help or hinder the fight against racism? This volume provides a constructive critique of the Swan Report of 1985 and of sociological research into racial and ethnic relations. The author undertakes a searching philosophical and sociological analysis of multicultural and antiracist education. He shows how the education system itself can reinforce racist assumptions and behaviour in society, but also argues that through educational and social reconstructing it can promote constructive cross-cultural relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|17 pages
Beyond rational choice
chapter 2|20 pages
Racist frames of reference
chapter 3|30 pages
What is multicultural and antiracist education?
Philosophical and sociological reflections
chapter 4|13 pages
A critique of the Swann Report
chapter 6|21 pages
Student-teachers' images of Black people and of education for a multicultural society
A case study