The Building Racial Literacy programme aims to set anti-racism as a baseline professional value, empowering educators to identify and implement anti-racist behaviours and processes in their everyday practice. The ultimate goal of the Building Racial Literacy programme is to make every educator in Scotland racially literate, effective at dealing with racism and confident in leading anti-racism.
To find out more about the programme and applications for the programme, please visit this webpage.
Three short videos have been created to tell the programme’s story with participants from cohort 1, cohort 2 and cohort 3. The poem by Tawona Sithole, Seeds of Anti-Racist Education, illustrates the importance of the professional learning programme. Participants have also shared their experiences and learning from the programme in the following blog posts:
- My experience of Building Racial Literacy: power, motivation, hope and positivity (education.gov.scot)
- Building Racial Literacy (education.gov.scot)
- Decolonising the Curriculum: Exploring Positive Narratives that Challenge Assumptions, Empower Learners and Inspire Unity (education.gov.scot)
BRL+ Webinar Series:
The BRL+ webinar series explores anti-racism in Scottish education and it is an extension of the Building Racial Literacy professional learning programme. BRL+ will bring together some new collaborators as well as showcase innovative ideas and good practice from previous participants on the Building Racial Literacy programme.
Anti-Racist Clubs:
In this Anti-Racist Clubs webinar, we hosted a panel discussion of educators and young people who are members of anti-racist clubs in Scottish secondary schools. Together we learned more about the purposes of anti-racist clubs, how they can be run and why they can be instrumental in anti-racist education.
Recommended pre-reading for the webinar: “Pupils in Scotland Call for Change: It’s Time for a Decolonised Curriculum” https://www.theantiracisteducator.com/post/pupils-in-scotland-call-for-change-it-s-time-for-an-anti-racist-decolonised-curriculum
Anti-Racist Critical Thinking and Curriculum Design:
In this BRL+ webinar, Nuzhat Uthmani and Navan Govender shared tools to help educators practise critical anti-racist thinking when designing their curriculum. Nuzhat is a BRL alumna, primary schoolteacher and founder of the Global Citizenship Education website. Navan is a member of The Anti-Racist Educator collective and an expert in Critical Literacies. The following padlet includes links to resources and tasks mentioned in the webinar.
