ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationships between multi-cultural and anti-racist education. It discusses the links between anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-classist education and ideology. Cecile Wright's in-depth research in two secondary schools of relations and attitudes between white teachers and Afro-Caribbean school pupils, and between white and ethnic minority children, gives verbatim and statistical evidence of stereotyping, under-expectation, and racism. Implementation at school level is patchy. Chris Gaine's book, No Problem Here, includes readable chapters on local authority policies and on developing and achieving a school policy. What teacher-training institutions are doing about multicultural and anti-racist education varies in tone, perspective, extent, and effectiveness but it is undoubtedly more widespread in the late 1980s than formerly. For some radical anti-racists, the term multi-cultural education is more widely acceptable than 'anti-racist education' for a policy, or for Grant Related In-Service Training (GRIST) or for Education Support Grant (ESG), funded by the DES.
