Education and Race from Empire to Brexit / / Sally Tomlinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Tomlinson, Sally,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether populist views that there should be a British identity - or a Scottish, Irish or Welsh one - will prevail. Alternatively arguments based on equality, human rights and economic needs may prove more powerful. It covers events in politics and education that have left most white British people ignorant of the Empire, the often brutal de-colonisation and the arrival of immigrants from post-colonial and European countries. It discusses politics and practices in education, race, religion and migration that have left schools and universities failing to engage with a multiracial and multicultural society.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Empire and ethnocentric education -- Internal colonialism and its effects -- Ending empire: Education for ignorance, 1945-1960s -- Post-imperial anxieties and conflicts, 1970-90 -- Inequalities, a European Union and education markets, 1990-97 -- New Labour: Wars, race and education, 1997-2005 -- Not so New Labour: Race and education, 2005-10 -- A divided society: Race, class and education, 2010-16 -- A dog’s breakfast Brexit, 2016-18 -- References -- Index