E/ME4/2/2

File regarding school year 1988/89, including information as follows:

1988 - 1989

From: 1988 To: 1989

- course details of “Towards Multicultural Education” (TME) course at Maryland College, Woburn including list of specific course objectives and timetable; - Multicultural Education Resources Centre (MERC)/Multicultural Education Support Team (MEST) report regarding Primary In-Service Education & Training (INSET) Paper - “Education for a Multi-Ethnic Society”, the report entitled “An Overview of Present Local & National Initiatives” and prepared by the head of MERC, Luton for National Association for Primary Education; - MERC/MEST publication of Local Education Authority (LEA) policy statement on Multicultural Education (ME) appendices regarding commitments to pluralism and racial equality, responsibilities on LEA and specific policies for schools; - Flowchart on arriving at a whole school approach to ME; - Digest of the Swann Report 1985 [see also E/ME4/2/1]; - provisional programme for INSET day at Icknield High School, Luton; - notes on development of Multi-ethnic Primary Group over next three years; - notes on racism in predominantly white primary schools; - report of issues of concern raised at TME course at Maryland College, Woburn; - notes - “Why Should All Schools Develop a Policy on ME”; - MERC/MEST list of journals for staff libraries, list of teacher reference resources and background reading reference; - evaluation forms of eleven attendees on TME course, format of the questionnaire being as noted in E/ME4/2/1; - detailed handwritten notes on approaches to ME in a number of schools [the notes are not always clear, the school not always identified and the order sometimes difficult to determine], schools include: St.Swithun's Voluntary Controlled, Sandy; Heathfield Lower, Leighton Buzzard; Abbey Middle School, Bedford; Roxton Voluntary Aided; Cardinal Newman Roman Catholic Upper School, Luton; Brickhill Lower School, Bedford.

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EDUCATION, multicultural education, ethnic minorities, training, teaching, Woburn Maryland College, Multicultural Education Resources Centre, LUTON, business correspondence, publication, Local Education Authority, programme, Icknield High School, race issues, primary schools, libraries, education services, surveys, St.Swithun's Voluntary Controlled Lower School, SANDY, Heathfield Lower School, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Abbey Middle School, Brickhill Lower School, BEDFORD, Roxton Voluntary Aided Lower School, ROXTON, Cardinal Newman Voluntary Aided Roman Catholic High School