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Phillips engaged with the conceptual debate concerning assimilation, integration and multiculturalism. By using the United States as an example, he examined the controversial subject of segregation and warned of the dangers of greater British cultural and social segregation. The context of integrationist 3 42 Multiculturalism and Education education and social policy has already been discussed in the previous chapter but that focus continues with the issue of segregation and the consequences this has had on integrationist and multiculturalist ideas.
Education is also perceived in the above quote as a site, as it was in the MacPherson Report (1999), to promote cultural diversity. The education subject of citizenship, which was introduced a year after the publication of the Cantle Report, is deemed as the means where ‘contact with other cultures’ should be a clear requirement for citizenship curriculum. The Home Office Report continues: We therefore, propose that all schools – whether faith or non-faith based – should seek to limit their intake from one culture or ethnicity.
2007: 23–24) acknowledges, ‘Swann . . was the product of a widely recognized need for social justice and for equality of opportunity’. However, there was still much missing from the publication of the Swann Report. It has to be remembered that the education policy document was published by a Conservative government and the period from 1985 to the publication of the Education Reform Act (DES, 1988) has been described in this context by Troyna (1993: 75–78) as ‘the conservative restoration’. The promotion of a multicultural curriculum remained after the publication of the Swann Report.