by Jonathan | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
By Islay Nicklin [Photo copyright: Tyler Feder] In June, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Scottish high school pupils began speaking out about their experiences with racism in schools. At that time, I was finishing my probationary teaching year in an...
by Jonathan | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
By Kari Giordano [Photo copyright: Friends School of Wilmington] Place based education has been embraced by some rural communities as a method of connecting students to their local surroundings in order to strengthen both the education of the student and the cultural...
by Jonathan | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog
By Andy Hancock [Photo credit: Linguistic Society of America] One element of The Black Lives Matter movement has been to shine a light on whose voices in society are heard and which are being silenced. These include multilingual voices as languages are integral to an...
by Jonathan | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog
By Rachel O’Neill [BSL translation by Rachel O’Neill, University of Edinburgh] It seems a wonderful job: teaching small groups of children, supporting deaf children to succeed in school, having close contact with families of deaf babies from birth, making...
by Jonathan | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
By Wilson McLeod Contempt and hostility towards Gaelic language and culture are deeply embedded in Scotland. Since at least the fourteenth century, Gaelic has often been stigmatised as inferior and backward, stereotypically associated with poverty and restricted...
by Jonathan | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog
By Rowena Arshad As we approach the end of Black History Month 2020, I wanted to use this blog to remember a piece of history that some might know about but most will not. This relates to the racist murder of Axmed Abuukar Sheekh in 1989 and the campaign by Lothian...
by Jonathan | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog
By Barbara Becnel In this critical moment of race relations in America, a sustainable black-white allyship in favor of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is already slipping away, as tracked by national polling data. But how culturally viable was the prospect of a...
by Jonathan | Oct 12, 2020 | Blog
By Reed Swier For the past few months I have felt like I am in one elongated Zoom training, attempting to disentangle white feelings and embedded racist ideologies – including my own. As an equity trainer focused on building culturally responsive and sustaining school...
by Jonathan | Oct 4, 2020 | Blog
By Henry Dee [Image credit: Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh] UncoverED started in September 2018 as a “collaborative decolonial project” researching the centuries-long, unacknowledged history of African, Asian and Caribbean students at the...
by Jonathan | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog
By Khadija Mohammad Black and minority ethnic (BME) teachers in the Scottish teacher workforce are severely under-represented (Scottish Government, 2018). At the same time, the few BME teachers who are working in educational institutions face challenges as they...
