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Responding to Racism in Prospective Teachers.
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Short, Geoffrey – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1992
Discusses ways to prevent explicit racists from becoming teachers; explains how racism affects student teachers and how to test for it using measures of ethnocentrism to screen prospective students; discusses implications of misleading analyses of racism in some contemporary literature, criticizing the approach to racism in the Swann Report…
Descriptors: Contemporary Literature, Cultural Images, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnocentrism
Who Counts; Who Cares? Scottish Children's Notions of National Identity.
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Carrington, Bruce; Short, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 1996
Presents the results of a case study of 9- to 11-year-olds' understanding of nationalism and collective identity in Scotland. Compares the responses of mostly-white Edinburgh students with those drawn from a multiethnic cohort from English schools. Examines the policy implications of these results. (MJP)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Educational Policy
Probing Children's Prejudice: A Consideration of the Ethical and Methodological Issues Raised by Research and Curriculum Development.
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Carrington, Bruce; Short, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 1993
Contends that, since the mid-1980s, many British schools in predominantly white areas have taken active steps to counter racism and ethnocentrism. Examines the ethical issues of researching such initiatives at the primary school level. Looks at curriculum development work in antiracist and multicultural education in "all white" schools.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Images, Curriculum Development, Educational Research