ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an account of the thirty-year development of measures to prepare teachers for the plural society of Great Britain, and their marginalization in the context of recent policy and legislation. The training of teachers to teach effectively in a multiethnic society was a partial success story until the late 1980s in Great Britain. Since the passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act, ideological and policy opposition to the preparation of all teachers for their role in an ethnically plural society has intensified. Teacher-trainers and Local Education Authorities (LEAs) are beginning to recognise their key role in educating the teachers who will prepare all pupils for life in a multi-ethnic society and an interdependent world more appropriately. The 1970s was a period of exhortation and recommendations for the inclusion of multicultural elements in both initial and in-service teacher-training, rather than of action.
