ABSTRACT
In the UK, local education authorities (LEA) have assumed an increasingly significant role in their attempts to ensure that local schools and colleges reappraise their normal practices and procedures along multicultural and antiracist lines. This chapter demonstrates empirically some of the arguments the author have proposed so far by drawing on research carried out in a school where a group of staff was involved in the move towards a whole school policy on antiracism. 'Outskirts' community college is a co-educational comprehensive upper school in 'Eastshire' LEA. The pastoral side of college life is based on mixed ability tutor groups whilst the academic structure of the college is organised on a faculty basis, of which there are six: Design; English; Mathematics; Humanities; Sciences; and, Languages. For the latter part of the 1984–5 Autumn term the debate about the education policy was moribund and was destined to be consigned to the annals of the college's history.
