ABSTRACT
In 1979 a committee was appointed to inquire into the 'education of children from ethnic minority groups'. Its final report, known as the Swann Report after its chairman, was submitted in 1985 under the title Education for All. At heart this recognizes that issues such as the academic achievement of ethnic minority pupils and the need for education to reflect the multiracial nature of British society are of more general concern than had been recognized. There is a developing tradition in the kind of enterprise stemming especially from work at the Centre of Applied Research in Education (CARE) and at the Cambridge Institute of Education. Teachers work in separate institutions from researchers, with their own occupational cultures. This, the activity of 'teaching' is not one separate from that of 'research'. Indeed, in this particular conception of collaborative research the researcher doing teaching is the logical corollary of the teacher doing research.
