Transcript Embedding Race Equality - Show Racism the Red Card

Promoting Race Equality: a Whole
School Approach
Glasgow
Monday 29th November 2010
Aims
• To emphasise the need for a whole school
approach to race equality.
• To encourage reflection on current teaching
approaches
• To provide starting points to begin embedding
equality in the curriculum
Why do we need to think about
this with young children?
Studies by Jeffcoate (1979) show that White
nursery children learn not to express negative
attitudes in front of adults. They pick up
unspoken messages that there are times when
they are expected to express what they feel and
others when they should not.
Give all children the opportunity to discuss similarities and
differences between people: skin colours, hair textures, eye, lip
and nose shapes, temperaments and abilities, about cultural
differences and about how positive self-identity and selfesteem develops.
HOW CAN WE PREPARE CHILDREN TO KNOW ABOUT AND
RESPECT DIFFERENCES?
• Discuss the things we all share - our common humanity, our
concern for others, our need to be loved, our need to eat and
sleep and play and have a home and clothes - all of which can
be different.
• By not giving a negative message by trying to silence children
or not answering their questions properly or saying the
subject isn’t something to be talked about.
• By knowing what action to take with the child, the victim and
the onlookers.
• By working with families to raise issues at home as well as in
early years settings.
What can we use to discuss these issues
with young children?
Persona Dolls
Photographs
Stories
Embedding
Equality
ACTIVITY
Teacher: “Today we are going to learn about
our ancestors, the Anglo Saxons”
Muslim Pupil “Are the Anglo Saxons Muslim
Miss?”
Teacher: We have a day devoted to African
culture.
What is African culture? African Music?
What is the Equivalent European Music?
There are vast cultural, geographical,
political and economic differences within and
between countries.
Teacher: We have curtains featuring
Golliwogs in the Nursery as they are really
sweet.
Undertake a Diversity Walk through
the school.
Promoting the positive?
What about challenging the
negative?
Be aware how current affairs are impacting on the young
people.
Have you ever got near them? They must really stink!
According to the statistics, they only take a bath once
a fortnight. They can’t make money, they have no jobs
at home, so they come over here to mess up our
economy and take our jobs. And why is there so much
unemployment in their own country? Because they’re
a lazy lot, who don’t want to work. Well let them be
warned, they won’t be allowed to live on social
security here.
The Sydney Star 1981
Many refugees are arriving in this country, and
in the majority of cases are being turned
back...once it was known that Britain offered
sanctuary to all who cared to come, the
floodgates would be opened and we should be
inundated by thousands seeking a home...our
own professions are already overcrowded and
have been further strained by arrivals in the
last few years from Central Europe.
Daily Mail 1938
Challenging stereotypes
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Developing critical thinking.
Myth busting- sharing the facts!
Humanise the ‘dehumanised’
Develop empathy
Ask yourself...” What message am I giving the young people in
my class?”
Who needs to be involved?
Class Teachers
Head teacher
Senior
Management
Pupils
Classroom
Assistants
Parents and
Carers
Governors
Lunchtime
Supervisors