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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/bridges-and-battlefields-in-education-re
 flections-on-embedding-diverse-critical-and-anti-racist-approaches-in-scho
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SUMMARY:Bridges and Battlefields in Education: Reflections on embedding 'di
 verse'\, critical\, and anti-racist approaches in schools
DESCRIPTION:26 February 2026\, 17:30-19:00\nREGISTER HERE\nGatsby Room (Cha
 ncellor's Centre)\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, and Zoom\nThis is the se
 cond event of this year’s annual 'Hierarchies of Racism?' series\, focus
 ing on race\, racialisation\, and racism within higher education instituti
 ons.\nThis session on race and education presents two practical case studi
 es from our work embedding anti-racist approaches in schools. Drawing on d
 ata from an eight-year international development project (the ActionAid/SE
 TA project) and a five-year professional development intervention in UK pr
 imary schools\, the first examines how school leaders\, educators and com
 munities navigate the successes and struggles of anti-racist practice. It 
 shows how engaging with histories of race and racism can address contempor
 ary injustices\, and how diverse national contexts galvanise a broader int
 ernational effort toward racial justice in education.\nThe second case stu
 dy reflects on a decade of work supporting the teaching of British histori
 es of migration and empire in English secondary schools. Drawing on the Ou
 r Migration Story public history project\, it situates recent curriculum r
 eform initiatives within longstanding debates about the scope and content 
 of British history teaching in schools\, and the grassroots movements advo
 cating for broader and more inclusive historical narratives.\nTogether\, t
 hese case studies highlight the importance of historical engagement\, coll
 aborative practice\, and sustained advocacy in creating critical\, equitab
 le\, and anti-racist educational spaces.\nSpeakers\nDr Sharon Walker is a 
 sociologist of race and education. Her research examines the material and 
 discursive processes that reproduce the idea of racial difference\, and ra
 cist practices and outcomes in education.  More broadly\, she is interest
 ed in the cultural politics of race\, and in race as a technology of state
  formation and practices of governance. Methodologically her research draw
 s on critical discourse analysis\, corpus approaches to discourse analysis
  and multi-sited ethnography. Theoretically\, her work is influenced by pe
 rspectives from cultural studies\, postcolonial sociology\, and intellectu
 al history. \nDr Sundeep Lidher is Lecturer in Black and Asian British Hi
 story (post-1800) at King’s College London. She has co-led various publi
 c history projects\, including the multi-award-winning AHRC-funded 'Our Mi
 gration Story' website\, a collaboration between the universities of Cambr
 idge\, Manchester\, and The Runnymede Trust. Her work has been published i
 n the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, the Journal of Ethnic and 
 Racial Studies\, and in various policy reports. Sundeep is working on her 
 first monograph\, which develops her PhD research on the imperial and glob
 al dimensions of British citizenship and immigration policy in the years b
 etween 1945 and 1962.\n&nbsp\;
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