Swann (1985)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Membership, Contents, Introduction

Part I: Setting the scene
Chapter 1 The nature of society
Chapter 2 Racism: theory and practice
Chapter 3 Achievement and underachievement
Chapter 3 continued

Part II: Education for all
Chapter 4 Ethnic minorities and education: historical perspective
Chapter 5 Multicultural education: further studies
Chapter 5 continued
Chapter 6 'Education for all': a new approach

Part III: Major areas of concern
Chapter 7 Language and language education
Chapter 8 Religion and the role of the school
Chapter 9 Teacher education; employment of ethnic minority teachers
Chapter 9 continued

Part IV: 'Other' ethnic minority groups
Introduction
Chapter 10 Chinese children
Chapter 11 Cypriot children
Chapter 12 Italian children
Chapter 13 Ukranian children
Chapter 14 Vietnamese children
Chapter 15 'Liverpool Blacks'
Chapter 16 Travellers' children
Reflections and conclusions

Part V:
Main conclusions and recommendations

Appendices

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups

Chairman: Lord Swann

Cmnd. 9453

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1985
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Notes on the text

Swann was the final report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups. The Committee's interim report, published in 1981, was the Rampton Report, which is also online.

Swann was a major report. Its 851 pages contain 16 chapters, 5 appendices and 40 or so tables (but no alphabetical index). There is also introductory material and a section containing the main conclusions and recommendations. Many of the chapters include annexes. The report is presented here in its entirety.

Every web page includes chapter links (as in the left hand column on this page) and there are links to the next and previous chapters at the bottom of each page.

Three of the chapters (3, 5 and 9) are very long and are each presented in two web pages.

The report contains both footnotes and references. The former are indicated by asterisks in the text. Since there aren't pages as such in this web version, I have inserted these after the paragraphs to which they refer. The latter, which are numbered, have been collected together and presented at the end of each chapter.

Quotations in the printed version are presented in indented paragraphs and italicised. In this web version, I have kept the indentations but dispensed with the italicisation.

The printed version includes a number of lists in which the items are preceded by dashes. I have replaced these with bullet points.

Some of the section headings in the report are printed in the left-hand margin. I have moved these into the body of the text. In a handful of cases (where headings appear part-way through a paragraph) I have divided the paragraph in two so as to include the heading.

In this web version, some of the report's tables - the smaller ones - are embedded in the text. The larger ones are shown as links in the text - clicking on one opens a pop-up window displaying the relevant table.

The printed version of the report contains dozens - if not hundreds - of spelling mistakes (of which perhaps the most glaring is 'Hucklebury Finn'!) and wrongly placed commas and speech marks. I have corrected all those I spotted.

I have removed the hyphens from a number of words including 'multi-racial' and 'multi-cultural'.

Anything I've added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].

I have proof-read and spell-checked the text, but if you spot any errors I'd be grateful if you'd email me.

Other than the above, what you see here is what appeared in the original print version of the report.