Education and race from Empire to Brexit /
This book offers an historically informed discussion of the failure of the education systems in Britain to counter hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants, which have escalated after the vote to leave the European Union, and left schools and universities failing to engage with...
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Policy Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; EDUCATION AND RACE FROM EMPIRE TO BREXIT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Delusions of empire; Empire and a long good-bye; Brexit after Empire; Post-imperial views; Structure of the book; 1. Empire and ethnocentric education; Education and empire; Labour and education, 1900-39; History, values and curriculum; Public school influence; Imperial values, education and social class; The influence of textbooks4; University influence; Literature for youth; Summary; 2. Internal colonialism and its effects; What the Romans did for us
- Internal colonialism and its effects: Fighting colonialism in Ireland; Ending 'The Troubles'?; Class and the white colonised; Summary; 3. Ending empire: Education for ignorance, 1945-1960s; Empire and decolonisation; Political hypocrisies; Education policies3; Education for ignorance; Education and minorities; Blaming minority children; Positive practice; Summary; 4. Post-imperial anxieties and conflicts, 1970-90; Politics and ideologies in the 1970s; Politics and ideologies in the 1980s; Whose identity?; Education policies in the 1970s; Education policies in the 1980s; Miseducating minorities
- Multicultural policy: Manufacturing ignorance; Curriculum possibilities; Summary; 5. Inequalities, a European Union and education markets, 1990-97; Policy preview; The politics of wars and immigration; The politics of sleaze; Class and deprivation; Race and harassment; Education policy; Failing schools; Whose National Curriculum?; Summary; 6. New Labour: Wars, race and education, 1997-2005; Politics, ideologies and war; Multicultural fears; Centralising education; Privatising education; Controlling higher education; The madness of testing; The absent curriculum; Summary
- 7. Not so New Labour: Race and education, 2005-10Dysfunctional politics; Disunity and diversity; Brown's woe's; Education policy from Blair to Brown; Academies; British values and the curriculum; Summary; 8. A divided society: Race, class and education, 2010-16; Posh politics and austerity; All change about the EU; Race, class and riots; Dysfunctional families; The enemy within all over again; Trojan horses revisited; A hostile environment; British values; Undemocratic education; Undemocratic schools; Gove's curriculum; Summary; 9. A dog's breakfast Brexit, 2016-18; Early Brexit years
- Politics of self-interest: Brexit lies and wishful thinking; May and Machiavelli; Politics of exclusion; Integration all over again; Windrush and a hostile environment again; Schools, universities and the curriculum; Summary; References; Index
