CERES Blogs
Welcome to the CERES Blogs
These blogs are intended to raise issues relating to promoting race equality and anti-racism within education in general. Blogs may present issues arising from research or can be personal accounts from educators, education students, parents, individuals and groups relating to the teaching on, or leadership of, matters related to ‘race’. They can be examples of best practice or discussions about conundrums or discomforts. The aim of the blogs is to open up discussion, to provide spaces for disruption, transformation and boundary-pushing in the area of race equality and anti-racism within education.
Our aim is to publish a new blog each week during term/semester times. Read our latest blogs below:
Blog 1: Decolonising and Initial Teacher Education, by Rowena Arshad
Blog 2: Black Lives Matter for mainly white classrooms, by Kari Giordano
Blog 3: It is never too early to talk anti-racism with young people, by Kristina Konstantoni
Blog 4: Artstories: Anti-racist community-based Art Education, by Pam Lawton
Blog 6: I am a Mongol and that is who I am, by Uuganaa Ramsay
Blog 8: Uncovering University of Edinburgh’s Black History, by Henry Dee
Blog 9: The Active Pursuit of Antiracist Allyship, by Reed Swier
Blog 10: Black-White Allyship: How Strong are the Ties that Bind? By Barbara Becnel
Blog 12: Anti-Gaelic rejectionism and minority rights in Scotland, by Wilson McLeod
Blog 13: Teachers of Deaf Education: Black Deaf Lives Matter, by Rachel O’Niell [with BSL translation]
Blog 14: Giving voice to Scotland’s minority language communities, by Andy Hancock
Contribute to CERES Blogs
If you feel you would like to contribute (and we hope you do), then please see the information below. We are very happy to take contributions from Scotland and across the world.
Blogs should include:
- 500-800 words submitted on a Word document.
- If you include any images/video, please ensure these are appropriately credited and with permission.
- A short bio of who you are with good quality head shot photo.
- If you are happy to include this, a link to your professional profile or an email address for readers to contact you.
- Any Twitter or Instagram handles and hashtags you would like to add when we promote it.
We encourage you to write to us with your idea for a blog before submission. Please contact us at ceres@ed.ac.uk and mark your email with ‘Blog submission’.