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Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

This special issue of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...

Can employers and schools harness employer engagement to improve diversity and inclusion?

The call for diversity and inclusion has intensified in light of recent events of police racism in the United States, the death of George Floyd being the catalyst. Beyond the rhetoric of Black...

Cultural capital in non-White majority schools: A critical exploration of cultural ethos and pedagogy

Embodied cultural capital includes the artistic, religious, social and historical inheritance of non-White students. Cultural pedagogy and ethos is defined as the institution’s ‘official’...

Anti-racist mathematics teacher education

On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...

Supporting quiet, shy or anxious Black, Asian and minority ethnic children with English as an additional language in the early years

Many articles that have been written in relation to the Black Lives Matter agenda, state that education is key to improving Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) children’s life chances...

Editorial: Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

The structural inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities have been deepened by a decade of austerity. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and, following yet further...

#BlackLivesMatter: Black female professionals’ experiences in the workplace

The devastating death of George Floyd, the Covid-19 pandemic, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #TheSchoolThatTriedToEndRacism have excavated and highlighted various inequalities within our...

#BlackLivesMatter in education: How can a hashtag help us understand exclusion inequalities in English schools?

The publicised deaths of Black people across the United States sparked a worldwide movement of protest against the historical inequalities and marginalisation experienced within the Black...

Beyond Britishness: Learning to become agents of change

It is time for education and the school curriculum in countries with colonial pasts such as Britain to take the knee: to recognise that we – particularly the young – need to see ourselves as...

The uncomfortable and destabilising realities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students on an initial teacher education course

As a major provider of teacher education in the north west of England, we want to develop inclusive and anti-racist practices that will allow us to provide the best possible quality of experience...

Yvonne Sinclair

Yvonne Sinclair is formerly a principal lecturer in Secondary Education at Manchester Metropolitan University working primarily on postgraduate initial teacher education (ITE) programmes,...

Diane Warner

Senior Lecturer

Dr Diane Warner is a senior lecturer in initial teacher education at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-convenor of ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s Race, Education and Ethnicity special interest group. She...