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For education in the United Kingdom, 1985 was the year of the Swann: the year that the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups, chaired by Lord Swann, published its 850-page report, significantly titled Education for All. And the month was March, renowned for Mad Hares and Hatters and for the Children's Literature Confefence at Brighton. In this paper, I sought to take a bite out of the Conference theme of “Fantasy Worlds” and chew it over in terms of the Swann Report. In reviewing the oral tradition, folktales, and contemporary fiction, I followed the “two distinct strands” identified by Swann: provision for ethnic minority children and provision for all children in a culturally plural society.
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Gillian Klein set up the Library in the Inner London Education Authority's Centre for Urban Educational Studies in 1974, establishing the first collection in the U.K. of resources for schools in a multicultural society. She has written widely for teachers, librarians, and children and is founder-editor of the journalMulticultural Teaching. Her most recent publication isReading Into Racism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).
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Klein, G. “Is going two days now the pot turn down”: Stories for all. Child Lit Educ 17, 53–61 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01126950
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