Abstract
Abstract This paper is concerned with the literature on teacher training for a multiracial society. Specifically it maintains that the literature has failed to consider the implications for training institutions of a particular type of racism. As a result, committed (or explicit) racists may have been allowed to enter the teaching profession. It is claimed that certain individuals have a psychological need to despise ethnic minorities and are therefore incapable of benefiting from any form of antiracist education. In the light of this claim it is urged that such individuals ought not only to be kept out of the profession but out of teacher training as well. The paper aims to identify some of the difficulties involved in realising this objective. It does so in the course of considering the role that a measure of ethnocentrism might play in the screening of prospective students. Whilst the paper focuses principally on developments in the United Kingdom, it is not suggested that the concern with explicit rac...
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