[🧵1/10] Today for our Friday ‘deep dive’ into our KS3 history resource packs we’re looking at @hannahcusworth’s pack on ‘Race and Ethnicity’ ➡️ a 7-lesson enquiry asking:
What do secondary schools reveal about changing attitudes towards race in England since 1945?
[🧵2/10] Lessons examine experiences discrimination & how communities of colour challenged racialized inequalities & racism
Teachers, please note ➡️ this enquiry addresses racism and discrimination & some primary source materials contain racist/discriminatory language
[🧵3/10] Lesson 1: Introduction - Schools and Social change in the UK after 1945
All packs start with this (optional) lesson on the big picture of UK social change post-1945, feat. a timeline activity for pupils & a chance to integrate your own school’s history into the story
[🧵4/10] Lesson 2: Small Numbers?
Pupils put post-1948 migration to Britain from South Asia & the Caribbean into a longer historical context, & explore black British experiences of going to school in the UK before 1939 through case studies based on oral histories & photos
[🧵5/10] Lesson 3: Assimilation & Integration?
Looking at state & school responses to pupils of colour in British schools in the ‘60s & ‘70s, w/ a case study of ‘bussing’. Historian @hisnameissatya discusses sources in a video made for the enquiry
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[🧵6/10] Lesson 4: Realisation?
Pupils study the responses of communities of colour to the systemic discrimination & racism faced in the education system, focusing on community activism and resistance, using photos, newspapers, newsletters, & films
[🧵7/10] Lesson 4 includes pupils working on a video with the historian and education specialist Paul Warmington, who offers accessible interpretations & context on several key sources on the history of black education in Britain
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[🧵8/10] Lesson 5: Conflict?
This lesson is all about the 1970s and 1980s: rising racial tensions on Britain’s streets and in schools, the rise of the far right & anti-racist activist & teacher responses
[🧵9/10] Lesson 6: Multiculturalism?
Pupils explore the rise of state-sponsored multicultural education in British schools in the 1980s, and some of the criticisms against it...
They look at gov. reports, activist materials, & lesson plans
[🧵10/10] Lesson 7: Outcome lesson
Pupils return to the 2 historian videos & other sources to consider change and continuity across the period.
They develop their own interpretation by curating an exhibition of the primary source material they’ve seen throughout
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