How to Be an Anti-Racist Educator

In recent months, the Black Lives Matter movement has heightened public consciousness of the extent to which racial injustice is embedded in all aspects of our society.

As a new term begins, many teachers will be returning to the classroom with a renewed commitment to practising active anti-racism in their school community.

But what does it take to make that commitment real? From behaviour to curriculum, what needs to be challenged, confronted, re-created? What tools and resources are available? And what is missing, overlooked, or denied?

RSA education director Laura Partridge is joined by Zahra Bei and Rodeane Henry-Grant, Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators; Sarah Brownsword, lecturer in education, UEA; and Daniel Kebede, senior vice-president, NEU, to share perspectives on what we need now to turn the discourse of anti-racism into the practical, sustained, everyday actions that will be vital to securing a fair education for everyone. 

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Further Reading

Explore RSA Fair Education projects:

https://www.thersa.org/bridges-future/fair-education

The NEU’s framework for developing an anti-racist approach:

https://neu.org.uk/anti-racism-charter

Addition links and reading suggestions:

https://my.chartered.college/2020/06/anti-racist-education-selected-reading/

This conversation was broadcast online on the 10th September 2020. Join us at: www.thersa.org