Welcome to the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES).
The Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of equality and anti-discrimination in education, labour markets and welfare state institutions. We take an intersectional approach to our understandings of the nature of inequality by exploring how ‘race’, ethnicity, gender, class, faith, sexuality and disability influence the life chances of individuals and groups.
LAUNCH OF REPORT
Attracting international students: equitable services and support, campus cohesion and community engagement
CERES will be hosting a half-day conference to present findings of the recent Equality Challenge Unit research into enhancing the international student experience through improving equality in service provision within higher education institutions.
For more information:
http://www.ecu.ac.uk/events/attracting-international-students-launch
Read more about this research:
http://issuu.com/the-university-of-edinburgh/docs/bulletin_spring_web/19
New Book
Social Justice Re-examined: Dilemmas and solutions for the classroom teacher
edited by Rowena Arshad, Lynne Pratt and Terry Wrigley
Commissioned by Trentham Books
This book is intended to help beginner teachers to think their way through issues of social justice to effect change in their classrooms and schools. The book will cover a range of themes which are complex and contested arenas for the everyday classroom teacher e.g. addressing poverty and social class, grappling with terminology and political correctness, working with pupils for whom English is an additional language without the necessary teaching or understanding of multilingual matters, addressing Islamophobia, sectarianism and religious bigotry, tackling homophobia and related prejudices, going beyond tackling boys underachievement, delivering an anti-racist learning and teaching curriculum.
Publication date: Summer 2012
New publication
‘The Politics of Everyday Life: Feminisms and Contemporary Community Development’ Special Issue for the Community Development Journal.
Edited by Akwugo Emejulu and Audrey Bronstein
This Special Issue was inspired by the call from Elizabeth Wilson to ‘inject some feminism into the community work scene’. Wilson argued that community development workers—so focused on political struggles in the workplace or in state structures—ignored the struggle for gender equality and social justice in the home and in the community. Although Wilson was writing more than thirty years ago, we wanted to revisit her critiques about the political orientation of community development in order to assess the state of contemporary feminist community development around the globe.