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University of Reading

Anti-racist Teaching in Schools

University of Reading via FutureLearn

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Gain the tools to create inclusive school environments

Are you looking to learn more about the ways racial inequality affects education today? With this online course you’ll learn practical strategies to create safe classrooms by using inclusive language, understanding critical race theory, and decolonising the curriculum.

Facilitating ways to have respectful conversations and responding actively to racism.

Understand racism and its impact in schools

Explore definitions of racism, discrimination, and microaggressions and their manifestations in schools.

You’ll analyse structural racism and its impact on education with supporting evidence from case studies and statistics relevant to the UK context.

Develop practical anti-racist teaching strategies

Gain tools for difficult conversations with pupils and colleagues and practise empathic listening.

You’ll discover approaches to curriculum decolonisation and inclusive pedagogy. Learners will develop classroom management techniques and active bystander interventions to address racism.

Reflect on personal bias and build allyship

Develop action plans to implement anti-racist practices and contribute to positive school cultures.

You’ll walk away wit the skills to encourage self-awareness, reflection on personal bias, and commitment to ongoing allyship and advocacy.

This course is ideal for teachers, school staff, professionals working with children and young people, as well as parents and carers seeking to promote equity and anti-racism in education.

Syllabus

  • Understanding racism and the education system
    • Welcome
    • Racism
    • Racial inequality
    • Racism in education
    • End of Week 1
  • Building trust and confidence
    • Welcome to Week 2
    • Critical race theory
    • Interactions and responses to racism
    • Open conversations
    • End of Week 2
  • Embedding inclusive practice
    • Welcome to Week 3
    • The National Curriculum
    • Teaching methods
    • Becoming an anti-racist educator
    • Action
    • End of course

Taught by

Suzy Tutchell

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