ABSTRACT
The Nottingham seminar sought to make a small contribution to the exploration of these issues, and the papers and discussion seminars ranged widely across them. The changed balance of teacher education must also now be a factor in any planning for a multicultural perspective at this level. The identified weakness in PGCE provision in respect of multicultural education must therefore command some importance in our planning; but overall, greater attention will now need to be given to in-service compared with initial training. An interdisciplinary approach involving social psychologists and anthropologists may prove necessary, just as an interprofessional approach to in-service training in the area of home, school and community may need to be given more attention than it has attracted so far. Trialling and evaluating different modes of multicultural input would also be useful. Going further, it would be worth examining attitudes towards teaching as a career among ethnic minority sixth formers, for the intake is still quite limited.
