
This new edition of the seminal text explores Britain’s shifting identity from empire to a post-Brexit nation. It examines race, politics, education and national identity amid turbulent change. With fresh insights on the pandemic, leadership crises and culture wars, it critically assesses Britain’s evolving place in the world.
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Introduction
1. Empire and Ethnocentric Education
2 Internal Colonialism and Its Effects
3. Ending Empire: Education for Ignorance 1945-1960s
4.post-imperial Anxieties and Conflicts 1970-90
5. Inequalities, a European Union and Education Markets 1990-97
6. New Labour: Wars, Race and Education 1997-2005
7. Not So New Labour: Race and Education 2005-2010
8. A Divided Society: Race, Class and Education 2010-2016
9. A Dog’s Breakfast Brexit 2016-2018
10. COVID, Boris and Educational Chaos 2019-2022
11. Still Chaos: Education, Race and Policy 2023-2025
12. Conclusion
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Sally Tomlinson is an Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths London University and an Honorary Fellow in the Education Department, University of Oxford. She began her teaching career in primary school in Wolverhampton, and has spent her academic career researching, writing and teaching about race and ethnicity, and the politics of education, especially ‘special’ education. She was a trustee of the African Education Trust for twenty years working in in Somalia and Somaliland and Kenya.