NCCRESt

part of the Education Reform Networks

Government Policy and School Effects: Racism and Social Justice in Policy and Practice

Criticizes social justice policies of the Labour government in the United Kingdom because they promote formal equality in the schools without working for substantive equity in outcomes of education. Naive multiculturalism is an inadequate policy response to the institutionalized racism that pervades the contemporary education system. (SLD)

• Author/Creator: Gillborn, David, Youdell, Deborah, Kirton, Alison
• Date Published: Sum
• Journal/Secondary Title: MCT--Multicultural Teaching
• Number: 3
• Volume: 17
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Equal Education
• Subject: Ethnic Groups
• Subject: Foreign Countries
• Subject: Minority Groups
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Outcomes of Education
• Subject: Political Influences
• Subject: Public Policy

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