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For a period of some twenty years after children of ethnic minorities from overseas liad entered British schools in significant numbers, central and local education authorities managed to diminish the political significance of their presence. Supported by prevailing liberal educational pedagogies and the doctrine that Kirp has described as ‘doing good by stealth’1 successive Labour and Conservative secretaries of state for education, and their officials avoided formulating direct, centralised policies to deal with a system which was moving from a mono- to a multi-cultural composition. Those local education authorities which found themselves incorporating large numbers of minority pupils defined the problem on a short-term remedial basis of ‘the needs of immigrant children’, dealt with matters largely on an ad hoc basis, and looked in vain for central guidance.
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Tomlinson, S. (1986). Political Dilemmas in Multi-Racial Education. In: Layton-Henry, Z., Rich, P.B. (eds) Race, Government and Politics in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18395-1_8
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