ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that for teachers to deliver the 1993 National Commission on Education's vision, they need to be trained to do so effectively. It attempts give readers a flavour of some of the recent and current practices, with regard to the preparation of all teachers for a multicultural society. It begins with a summary of teacher training Provision in the eighties and considers the effects of the Education Reform Act (1988) and the attacks on teacher education and on anti-racism by the extreme Right. As a central part of the information required by Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, HMIs visited teacher-training institutions in the public sector and also visited some University departments of education by invitation. The chapter considers the reforms proposed for Teacher Education in the 1990s and year 2000 and examine the obsessive phobia amongst the extreme Right which regards teacher training institutions as arenas of socialist indoctrination and totalitarianism.
