Thread by @RunnymedeTrust

Our event with @ERC_TIDE at @UKParliament, 'Teaching Migration, Empire and Belonging' is getting underway shortly.

We'll be live-tweeting using #TeachingMigration

Chair, @DawnButlerBrent (Shadow Women & Equalities Secretary) opens proceedings.

She says teaching migration, empire and belonging in secondary schools is the right thing to do. She highlights Windrush as an example of why it's vital

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Runnymede's Senior Policy Officer, @mcintosh_kim thanks Professor Clare Alexander (University of Manchester), @malachimcintosh and @historysunny for their work on OurMigrationStory.co.uk which informs today's report and event

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Runnymede's Senior Policy Officer, @mcintosh_kim highlights that teachers need training and resources to teach migration, Empire and belonging.

78% of teachers surveyed wanted to teach migration

Professor Nandini Das @rentravailer (Director @ERC_TIDE) talks about how migration, Empire and belonging are central to the national story, and the failure to teach them in school means ethnic minorities are denied a place in British history.

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Professor Nandini Das @rentravailer says understanding and teaching Britain's complex and fraught relationship with other countries is a necessity.

@ERC_TIDE Project set about providing teachers with the tools to do so through the Beacon Fellowship programme

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@JJtodd1966 says we know that very few students do not take up the migration module in history when given the option.

Perhaps because of teachers not being confident to doing so

@JJtodd1966 highlights that teachers may have blind spots or gaps.

Knowledge isn't static or fixed, knowledge isn't neutral - history (and public discourses) reflects the power relations of the time.

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@JJtodd1966 highlights historic inequalities - for example slaves and Indian soldiers in World War I - are playing out in classrooms today.

Currently, the nameless and the silent are not represented in what pupils are being taught.

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@JJtodd1966 points to Centre for Holocaust of Education (@UCL_Holocaust) as an example of good practice.

It has highlighted what teachers need and provides training for teachers to teach the Holocaust sensitively and confidently

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Lauren Cowan, a teacher from a secondary school in Haringey where 60 languages are spoken, says that stories matter. It's where we see ourselves.

Some stories are hidden. She says so many of our stories, living legacies of Empire and migration, are hidden

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Lauren says the novels of Dickens, HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle are rich with references to a cosmopolitan, diverse Britain.

The opportunities to teach migration and Empire exist but teachers choose not because of dominant narratives.

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Lauren says our migration history is British history, avoiding Empire and migration in teaching is dishonest.

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Hannah, a teacher in SE London @hannahcusworth, another Beacon Fellow, explains what she learnt from the fellowship and being trained to teach migration and Empire.

Studying early Empire reshapes the narrative of oppressor/oppressed

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Hannah highlights that there has been a black presence in Britain since Roman times.

And found teaching migration and Empire in her classroom in South East London, close to Brixton, New Cross and Stephen Lawrence, resonated with pupils

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Hannah @hannahcusworth says teachers lack time and require support and resources to really move the curriculum on.

The curriculum is stuck because people are pushed for time.

She says OurMigrationStory.co.uk is a hugely important classroom resource

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@helenhayes_ talks about her constituency Dulwich & West Norwood, a very diverse place, where diversity is celebrated.

She says #migration is a brilliant prism through which we can ALL learn about our history, regardless of when we arrived in Britain.

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@helenhayes_ says teaching #migration should be mainstreamed in the history curriculum, not optional.

She says more campaigning is needed to make this happen

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In conclusion @DawnButlerBrent says 'It's history for everyone, not just one group'

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