SECONDARY CURRICULUM
The national secondary curriculum remains whitewashed and unrepresentative, particularly since the Gove Review (2011).
One of the results of the review was a squeeze on knowledge development in Key Stage 3.
Over time schools have been given freedoms and flexibility in what they teach, but “finding room in the timetable” is often used as the primary reason as to why the curriculum remains lacking in diversity.
By providing these links and resources we aim to help teachers enrich the curriculum and create a truly anti-racist education system in the UK, starting with Oxfordshire schools.
We have grouped these resources under subjects to help teachers, but many have cross-curricular capabilities.
Other parts of the site which may support learning and teacher development include Arts, Climate Justice, books, films, podcasts and videos.
A Visual Timeline of 8000 years of African and World History
HISTORY
A Tribe Called Progress is a racial equity organisation.
We are building an Institute for Black Progress.
Their vision is to connect, unite and transform the Black community through education, progressive action and allyship.
Black Tudors Resources
HISTORY
This collects a variety of resources including lessons and interpretations about Miranda Kauffman’s Black Tudors.
Black History 4 Schools
HISTORY
blackhistory4schools is the leading website in the UK dedicated to the promotion of Black and Asian British history in schools. The resources are freely available and cover topics ranging from the Romans to the Windrush.
Decolonising geographical knowledges by Sarah A Radcliffe
GEOGRAPHY
This piece provides an overview of decolonising approaches for geographers unfamiliar with the field, first by examining some of the ways in which decolonial scholarship seeks to build on – and go beyond – postcolonialism.
Decolonising Geographical Knowledges, or Reproducing Coloniality?
This RBS commentary explains why this pursuit of critical consciousness via decolonial thinking could do more harm than good. They show how the emphasis on decolonising geographical knowledges rather than structures, institutions and praxis reproduces coloniality, because it recentres non-Indigenous, white and otherwise privileged groups in the global architecture of knowledge production.
Legacies of British Slave ownership
CITIZENSHIP /ECONOMICS /HISTORY
Colonial slavery shaped modern Britain and we all still live with its legacies. The stories of enslaved men and women are no less important than those of slave-owners, and we hope that the database produced in the first two phases of the project, while at present primarily a resource for studying slave-owners, will also provide information of value to those researching enslaved people.
Teaching Black Tudors
HISTORY
Teaching Black Tudors by Miranda Kauffman as a window into Tudor England.
Teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire
GEOGRAPHY / HISTORY
A crowdsourced collection of resources for teachers, students and researchers exploring histories of race, migration and Empire.
The long, insidious shadows of colonialism
HISTORY
The manifestations of structural racism are both dramatic and visible in education.
VIDEOS
CITIZENSHIP / ENGLISH /MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS /SOCIOLOGY
Akala's first Fire In The Booth with Charlie Sloth addresses war and conflict, social injustice, racism, and false consciousness.
CITIZENSHIP / ENGLISH /MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS
Akala demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and Hip-Hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and it's power.
CITIZENSHIP/ GEOGRAPHY / PERFORMING ARTS
'Talk That' by 'Lord Rivz' uses music to address the 2011 London Riots.
SCIENCE / CITIZENSHIP / HISTORY
Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community.
HISTORY
Anita Rani presents the extraordinary and emotional stories of three British families - one Muslim, one Hindu and one British colonial - who lived in India 70 years ago, at the time of Partition.
CITIZENSHIP / ENGLISH /MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS
Linton Kwesi Johnson‘s “Sonny's Lettah” was part of the consciousness-raising that led to the infamous UK "sus" law to be withdrawn in 1981.
ALTHISTORY
HISTORY
Writer and historian David Olusoga presents a series of short films exploring critical moments in Black British history from 1919 that have been forgotten or rarely discussed.
One school's approach to teaching black history
HISTORY
This school in the UK has taken a different approach to teaching black history, educating students on the subject all year round, rather than just during Black History Month.
The BBC's Celestina Olulode visited Claremont High School in Kenton, London, to find out more.