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Promoting racial equality and cultural diversity. A departmental approach. Legal requirements. The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places the following duties on schools: Promote equality of opportunity Eliminate unlawful discrimination - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Promoting racial equality
and cultural diversityA departmental approach
Legal requirements
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places the following duties on schools:– Promote equality of opportunity– Eliminate unlawful discrimination– Promote good race relations between
people of different racial groups
This is regardless of the ethnic composition of the school
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Session plan
• The curriculum
• Classroom practice
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Case studies
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The curriculum
• How are values communicated through your subject?
• Are there particular topics that lend themselves to the promotion of racial equality?
• Is it enough to teach that racism is wrong, or are there ways you can positively promote racial equality?
• Would students say that racial equality is promoted positively in your subject?
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Classroom practice
• Do you make cultural assumptions about the backgrounds of your students, eg food, attitudes to gender or celebrations?
• Do you make judgements about students based on British cultural values, eg subservient girls are assumed to be quiet, or outspoken boys are assumed to be cheeky?
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Classroom practice
• Have you ever come across parents from ethnic minorities who have different expectations of their children from your own?
• Do cultural values influence the subjects students choose to study at your school?
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Improve classroom practice
• Build in opportunities for students to talk about attitudes and customs
at home in a non-judgemental environment
• Construct learning opportunities for the so-called subservient girls to develop more confidence, for instance by creating single-gender groups
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Improve classroom practice
• Support high expectations, but suggest that ambitions may take longer to realise in some students than in others
• Emphasise to parents/carers the career advantages of skills and subjects they may not value highly
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Monitoring attainment
• How well do ethnic minority students do in your subject?
• Is this better or worse than in other subjects?
• How do you know?
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Evidence of effectiveness
• Exam statistics
• Student surveys
• Staff surveys
• Parental surveys
• Focus groups
• Records of racist incidents
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Case study 1
You hear a group of Asian boys calling each other ‘Paki’ as a term of
friendship at lunchtime. Other students hear it too.
How would you react?
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Case study 2
A Bangladeshi boy joins your class. One of the others immediately asks
if he is an illegal immigrant.
How would you react?
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Case study 3
You set a question in class about a fictitious girl called Radhika
and several students shout out that she probably smells of curry.
How would you react?
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Case study 4
A school trip includes a visit to a mosque. A parent writes to you to say he does not want his child to
go there in case of ‘terrorists’.
How would you react?
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