The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements.
Guest Hosts:
The Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (CARE) and Black Educators Alliance (BEA) includes teachers who work in primary and secondary schools.
Camille London-Miyo has been an English teacher, Head of English, and Deputy Headteacher in inner-city schools for the past thirty years. She is a Community Activist who actively builds parent/community networks to support and challenge the negative narratives about Black communities in Education Her understanding of the complexity and importance of involving students, parents and communities in order to achieve genuine and sustained progress in UK education at all levels has been the foundation to her work, to date, within teacher networks and professional development programmes across the UK. She was elected the first Black President in the history of Leicester's teaching unions ( that spans over a hundred years) in 2018.
Camille is also one of the co-founders of the Black Educators Alliance and the Leicester Black Educators Network. Her interests include Black teachers in education - recruitment, retention and progression, radical pedagogies that challenge empirical ideas about teaching and learning; Developing a Global "English" Literature Curriculum as part of a holistic anti-racist strategy in Schools. She has written a chapter entitled "Education, race and the decolonisation of the Curriculum" in Beyond the Blockade - Education in Cuba(2019) and a recent article for the Independent on the impact of the PSHE Guidance. She is one of the co-editors of the upcoming 'History of Black Teachers in the NEU' to be published in 2021.
Aliyah York is a 17 year old A-level student, Activist and founder of @ThePupilPower. Her award winning work and contributions to educational change seek to centre youth voice, challenging the status quo and encouraging her peers to reimagine the 21st century education system.
She tweets at @aliyahiyork
Ilyas Nagdee is a writer and activist with a focus on policing, security and antiracism. He has written for outlets such as The Independent, Guardian, Tribune, Red Pepper and other publications. He tweets at @ilyas_nagdee
Useful links:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/liberate-our-classrooms/https://nomoreexclusions.com/care/https://blackeducatorsalliance.org/https://www.gov.uk/guidance/plan-your-relationships-sex-and-health-curriculum
S2/E2 CARE & BEA legal challenge against the new government PSHE curriculum guidance | Surviving Society Productions podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
