BRITISH SCHOOLS FOR BRITISH CITIZENS

This article explores the contention that the National Curriculum (NC) for 5-16 year olds in England and Wales provides 'entitlement' to all pupils. We interrogate the culturalist impulses in the NC and argue that they are anathema to the development and legitimation of anti-racist education. After exposing the limitations of the Labour Party's alternative policy package for education we indicate how the concept of culture might be reconstructed in ways in which anti-racist, anti-sexist and associated social justice principles could be effectively realised