Anti-racist education: history, theory, practice: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
These recordings come from a day-long workshop that took place in November 2019 for staff and students at the University of Cambridge entitled 'Anti-racist education: history, theory, practice'. The workshop asked how an anti-racist agenda might look different to the University of Cambridge’s current emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
You can read more about the workshop at the following link: [https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/newsletter/spotlight-anti-racist-education]
The corresponding presentations and other resources relating to the workshop are available at the following link: [https://sesc.hist.cam.ac.uk/2020/07/31/talks-and-resources-for-anti-racist-education-history-theory-practice/]
Welcome and introduction: Sharon Walker and Laura Carter Session 1: History – Chris Jeppesen and Laura Carter Session 2: Theory – Sharon Walker Session 3: Practice – Meleisa Ono-George, ‘Active Anti-Racism, Higher Education, and Transformational Change’
Keynote speaker Meleisa Ono-George (University of Warwick) discusses the urgent need for more anti-racist initiatives within universities and how this has been approached at the University of Warwick [31 mins]
Sharon Walker considers the wider theoretical and conceptual debates around anti-racism within the current context of the 'Decolonizing' movement [41 mins]
This comprises the introductory segment to an interactive source-based activity that looked at the history of anti-racism in London schools in the 1970s and 1980s. In this introduction, Chris Jeppesen and Laura Carter give some background on race and secondary education in the 1970s and the ways in which the Inner London Education Authority [ILEA] started to introduce anti-racist initiatives in the 1980s [26 mins]