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26 Aug 2024


NextImg:Teachers across Britain will be taught to challenge 'whiteness' in schools

Teachers across Britain are set to be taught to challenge "whiteness" in schools.

According to a best-practice document, educators will be instructed on how to "disrupt the centrality of whiteness" in schools.

The aim of this is to ensure that future teachers are "anti-racist" and be prepared to implement this in the classroom.

Documents claim that encouraging "anti-racist" teacher training will help to maintain a diverse teaching workforce and will help to close the gap between white and non-white students.

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Educators will be instructed in how to "disrupt the centrality of whiteness" in schools

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Additional concepts such as "meritocracy", "objectivity" and "individualism" should be questioned, according to the guidance.

The documents also state that white student teachers should also be helped to develop and project a "positive white racial identity".

Separate guidance has been developed in Scotland and England, with both documents having been endorsed by the National Education Union and by universities offering teacher training.

The Scottish "anti-racism framework" states that changes to the way in which teachers are taught will "disrupt the centrality of whiteness and enable different ways of seeing, thinking and doing."

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Documents claim that encouraging "anti-racist" teacher training will help to maintain a diverse teaching workforce and will help to close the gap between white and non-white students

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It aims to tackle racism in education and to create a more diverse teaching workforce.

This process may involve references to colonialism and racism in lessons, and instilling an understanding of the “impact of whiteness”.

This will help teachers project a “white racial identity grounded in reality and allyship” in the classroom, free from “false notions of superiority”.

Similar to Scotland, an anti-racism framework for teacher training was developed for England in 2023.

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The documents also state that white student teachers should also be helped to develop and project a "positive white racial identity"

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It states that “teachers working with all age groups” are “crucial to anti-racism work”, and directs tutors to academic literature on how to deal with “whiteness”.

A Newcastle University - who funded England's anti-racism framework for teacher training spokesperson, said: "As we saw with the recent public unrest across the UK, racism is pervasive in our society.

"The way that we educate current and future teachers will play an important role in breaking this cycle and the framework was developed to provide practical guidance on this.”

GB News has approached the National Education Union for comment.