Another issue that challenges teachers in inclusive practice is the implementation of ethnic groups in the curriculum. Race’s (2001, p.6-8) analysis of past education policies notes that during the 1980s, Education for All was the major policy document regarding the subject, ethnicity that caused a lot of political debate as the document was lacking identities of other ethnic minorities and has took eight years to publish. After that, the 1988 Education Reform Act introduced the national curriculum which called for a core curriculum that includes three main subjects: English, Mathematics and science along with seven foundation subjects: design and technology, art, music, PE, history, geography and modern foreign language. (Klein, 1993, p.150) Schools then have the constitutional duty to provide for every pupil ‘a …show more content…
(p.8) Other writers like Arora (2005, p.46); King and Reiss (1993, p.6) shows an agreement on Race’s statement as they all remarks the underpinning contradictory of the purpose of the National Curriculum for example the ideology of national testing would penalize ethnic minority pupils. Focusing deeply into the