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Promoting Diversity: A Guide to Addressing Racism in Education

This guide aims to facilitate discussions about racism among young people, providing tools to challenge negative attitudes and promote positive change. It emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space for open dialogue and offers activities to encourage understanding and empathy. Educators are encouraged to be mindful of their language and approach when addressing differences to avoid reinforcing stereotypes or fear.

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Promoting Diversity: A Guide to Addressing Racism in Education

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  1. Educating Against Racism

  2. Aims • To encourage reflection on current teaching approaches • To provide starting points for discussion about racism with young people • To identify ways to respond to negative attitudes to create positive change

  3. What are you doing already?

  4. We need to promote the positive aspects of diversity, but it is also vital to challenge negative attitudes.

  5. The Importance of a ‘Safe Space’ • Perception is reality • Things vocalised by young people are valued as an insight into their perceived reality • Denial of feelings or experiences • Non-Judgemental • Safe Space encourages participants to have their grievances aired

  6. Burning Questions

  7. “I Know a Culture” ACTIVITY

  8. Choose an adjective from the list below to describe how you feel about the statement:

  9. When we are not fully informed about something it can seem frightening and different The more we find out about difference the easier it is to understand. As educators we have to be careful when discussing difference that we don’t just focus on the exotic or the curious and that we use accessible language and don’t reinforce fear and stereotypes.

  10. ‘European home’

  11. ‘African home’

  12. ‘British home’

  13. ‘Ugandan home’

  14. Flats, UK

  15. Flats, Uganda

  16. Detached suburban home, UK

  17. Detached suburban home, Uganda

  18. New Neighbours

  19. Effective Challenges

  20. Further Work

  21. Who needs to be involved? Head teacher Admin Staff Class Teachers Senior Management Classroom Assistants Pupils Parents and Carers Governors Lunchtime Supervisors

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