Understanding Recent UK-Based Racial Equality Movements
Year Groups: 8-13
Timing: 60 – 75 minutes
This session consists of an interactive and mixed medium presentation that will help students understand and contextualise the history behind recent racial inclusion movements within the UK, and consider the factors that have impacted racial inequality, biases, stereotypes, microaggressions, and prejudice that exist today.
The presentation will explore:
- History of race and discrimination
- History of major migration groups to the UK
- Experiences on arrival – exploring areas such as housing, employment, and schooling
- Tracking those experiences into structural inequality today such as health, education, employment, and group economics
- Equality & Equity
- Understanding bias and where it comes from
Understanding Bias, Overt and Covert Discriminatory Language & Impact
Year Groups: 8-13
Timing: 60 – 90 minutes (or as below)
This session consists of an interactive workshop that will help students to walk away with language and practical tools to recognise and address discriminatory and microaggressive thinking and actions (race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation based ) that might occur in their own environments and grow in racial literacy.
The workshops will students:
- Understand bias
- Understand microaggressions
- Grow in racial literacy
The microaggressions in the workshops can be informed by staff, students, and/or those that ACEN facilitators commonly come across, both inside & outside of the school environment.
We strongly recommend that all workshops include the presentation ‘Understanding recent UK-based racial equality movements’ to contextualise thinking which aids workshop participation. Timings will be adjusted if procured together and suggested timings will then be 45 minutes for the presentation and 60-75 minutes for the workshop.
From Bystander to Upstander
Year Groups: 8-13
Timing: 60 – 90 minutes (or as below)
This session consisting of a short presentation and a case study based interactive workshop will allow students to work through multiple forms of discrimination examples and students will work through the concepts of allyship and upstander intervention.
The scenario-based examples can be informed by staff, students, and/or those that ACEN facilitators commonly come across, both inside & outside of the school environment.
We strongly recommend that all workshops include the presentation ‘Understanding recent UK-based racial equality movements’ to contextualise thinking which aids workshop participation.
In addition, we recommend that this training occurs after or alongside a microaggression workshop so that students have gained the confidence to recognise and challenge the more subtle forms of discrimination that largely constitute the issues reported in education settings.
Timings will be adjusted if all three are procured together and suggested timings will then be 45 minutes for the presentation and 75-120 minutes for the workshop.
