Dedicated towards Race Equality and Diversity in Education
Utter disbelief! Racism and inequality in education has always been a underlying problem, however, its been a long time since I have witnessed an example as blatant as this.Instances like this are a justification...
Have you taken the implicit bias test? Follow link: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html The test highlights your personal biases relating to issues such as gender, religion, race, skin colour etc. It is a good introduction for a...
Abstract The Government continuously lead educational change with the recurring rhetoric of autonomy and accountability. The academisation of English Local Education Authority (LEAs) secondary schools, influenced by neoliberal ideology rooted in education, (Saltman, 2014)...
BAME is the latest terminology used to summarize ethnic groups in England. The main characteristic that people associated to the BAME group have in common, is that they are non-white British within the UK....
An example of good practice for encouraging diversity exists at the University of Manchester (University of Manchester, 2016), during the recruitment process they use an Implicit Association Test Beattie (2012), which measures unconscious...
Seminar of the Critical Discourses in the Academy seminar series on 7th June, 2017 (4-6pm). We will be looking at Intersectionality and the need to theorize Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion together! The seminar...
In general, Black males from an afro Caribbean heritage still underperform in school compared their white counterparts. This along with a rigid ‘Anglo-centric’ curriculum and the news of less world history being included within...
The ‘Ragged Schools’ were developed in working class areas in Victorian Britain and was the start of free comprehensive schooling. These schools were set up for the poorest families in contrast to the private...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/bme-teachers-stereotypical-roles-in-schools?CMP=fb_gu Interesting read. This also supports the importance of positive role models in education. Is there a need for positive discrimination, as suggested by Sir Michael Gove (mentioned in the previous articles), to fast...
