Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in education and a University Fellow at the Centre for Education for Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship at Roehampton University in London, United Kingdom. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Advancing Multiculturalism, post 7/7, and a co-series editor on Contemporary Issues in Education with Continuum Books.
Between Past Failure and Future Promise: Racial Discrimination and the Education System
The focus of this article is to examine the theme of racial discrimination within the context of education policymaking. It will draw on an ongoing conceptual debate that analyses contemporary education and social policy evidence within an integrationist/multicultural framework, but also analyse the extreme concepts of assimilation and anti-racist education policy.