Educational Policy & Ethnicity

Question 1

Multicultural Education

Answer 1

• multicultural education was implemented which aimed to make a more inclusive educational environment for minority students.
• Such attempts included:
• Having classes which specifically educated students about the languages, religions and diets of different minority ethnic groups
• Changing textbooks so that they had broader representation of ethnic minorities

Question 2

city academies

Answer 2

• labour party
• originally intended to only apply to failing schools. These would often be in cities, and were designed to help improve lower-income and ethnic minority student performance. This is because Academies have a degree of autonomy which allows them to teach a curriculum which is more relevant to their learners

Question 3

Implementation of British Values

Answer 3

• Ofsted Inspection Framework indicated that every lesson taught to students needs to incorporate British values into the teaching.
• The most notable of this for minorities is the ‘tolerance of different cultures and religions’, and ‘mutual respect’.
• The idea being is that younger generations of all ethnicities would simultaneously develop a sense of British identity which would create a sense of solidarity, while also celebrating diversity and multiculturalism