Learning about racism
The experiences of British schoolchildren
today do not fit a 'black and white' dichotomy betweem
races.
The UK has the highest numbers of interracial adult
relationships and children of mixed heritage in the world (one in
20 pre-school children in Britain is of mixed
heritage).
'Who Do We Think We Are? is a new programme for school in
England that supports the Community Cohesion duty on schools from
September 2008. The Global Gateway has worked with WDWTWA, which
itself takes its lead from the Ajegbo Report of 2006.
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Some of the best and most effective resources are based
around sport, particularly football or the Olympics, and have the
endorsement of some of the major players and
athletes.
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An international viewpoint
The UN website for schoolchildren, Cyberschoolbus, offers
lesson plans on discrimination that looks at examples across the
world and includes material on the Holocaust, apartheid, the Civil
Rights movement in the US, and indigenous tribes around the
world.