ABSTRACT
It is an opportune time to consider policies and practice in physical education that relate to ‘race’, ‘ethnicity’ or ‘cultural diversity’. Following the much publicised death of Stephen Lawrence, apparently for no other reason than the colour of his skin, the inquiry leading to the Macpherson Report recommended that education should have a fuller role in the prevention of racism and: ‘that consideration be given to amendment of the National Curriculum aimed at valuing cultural diversity and preventing racism, in order better to reflect the needs of a diverse society’ (Macpherson Report 1999: para. 67).
