Young, Gifted

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Young, Gifted Equal (YGE)racial equality
standards for schools

• Clive Billingham
• Advisory Teacher for Multicultural Education
• Learning Service,
• Leicester City Council

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Clive Billingham

• worked in intercultural education for 30 years as
  teacher advisor in
• Birmingham, London, Bradford, Nottingham
  Leicester
• current role working with Leicester schools
  providing training, resources advice on
• policy practice regarding
• cultural religious diversity, racism
  community cohesion

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YGE Leicester schools in 2007

• 52 pupils non-white
• Indian origin 31
• other Asian 8
• Somali 4
• other African 2
• mixed backgrounds 6
• 25 Muslim

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Educational responses to migrant pupils in U.K.

• movements over 40 years
• Language from separate classes to support in
  mainstream classes (sometimes) using bilingual
  approaches, then
• Culture no change in curriculum to including
  culture, history etc of migrant communities into
  curriculum for everyone (multicultural
  education), then
• Anti-Racism recognizing dealing with the
  barriers caused by racism institutional, as
  well as individual

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Institutional Racism

• Lawrence Report (1999) from Government - focus
  on
• discrimination through unwitting prejudice,
  ignorance, thoughtlessness racist stereotyping
  which disadvantage minority ethnic people.

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Institutional Racism in schools

• colour-blind approaches
• not taking account of different group needs
• treating everybody the same
• carrying on in the same old ways
• not looking at the performance of different
  ethnic groups
• expecting/accepting individuals from different
  groups to behave/perform in certain ways
  (negative stereotypes)
• not acknowledging/talking about racism
• not involving minority ethnic pupils parents

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Race Relations Act 2000

• All schools have to
• promote race equality
• have Race Equality Policies to
• incorporate race equality perspectives into
  policies practices
• to tackle institutional racism

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Young, Gifted Equal what it is

• self-evaluation tool for
• race equality (intercultural education), using
• indicators (criteria)
• evidence
• planning tool

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Young, Gifted Equal what it does

• helps schools develop practice in race equality
• across the whole school
• in a planned strategic manner
• on the basis of evidence

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Young, Gifted Equal areas

• covers the whole range of school life by looking
  at
• Policy Planning
• Staffing
• Involvement
• Curriculum
• Achievement
• Ethos
• Racial harassment

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Young, Gifted Equal example of use

• Ethos indicator The promotion of race equality
  is clearly articulated widely communicated,
  e.g. through displays, statements etc.
• rated at levels 1-4
• lower levels (1 2) less evidence of activity
  gt plans to be made
• higher levels (3 4) should be supported by
  evidence of doing it successfully

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Young, Gifted Equal support programme

• training
• advice
• resources
• accreditation, which
• - validates school achievements
• - identifies good practice