Teachers
Many of the professional values described in the Professional Standards for teachers are relevant to race equality and anti-racist education. For example,
‘Committing to social justice through fair, transparent, inclusive, and sustainable policies and practices in relation to protected characteristics, (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation) and intersectionality.
Valuing, as well as respecting, social, ecological, cultural, religious, and racial diversity and promoting the principles and practices of sustainable development and local and global citizenship for all learners.
Demonstrating a commitment to motivating, and including all learners, understanding the influence of gender, social, cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds on experiences of learning, taking account of specific learning needs and seeking to reduce barriers to learning.’ GTCS (2021) ‘The Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning: An Aspirational Professional Standard for Scotland’s Teachers’
Community, Learning and Development Practitioners
Community, Learning and Development practitioners’ commit to the value of inclusion ‘valuing equality of both opportunity and outcome, and challenging discriminatory practice’. SCS Values of CLD (2021)
Early years and Childcare Practitioners
Early years and Childcare staff commit to ‘inclusion, diversity, social justice, anti-discrimination and protecting and caring for children and young people’.
Scottish Social Services Council, The Standard for Childhood Practice (2015)
