Creating the anti-racism framework to transform the curriculum for student teachers in England

Smith, HJ; Lander, V

Creating the anti-racism framework to transform the curriculum for student teachers in England

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Heather Smith

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Abstract

This chapter presents findings from a global literature review into anti-racism in initial teacher education/training, and a national survey for England which was constructed following the review to gain a contemporaneous picture of anti-racism work in ITE/T in England. Both the literature review and survey revealed a pressing need for student teachers to become racially literate, and for guidance for ITE/T providers in teaching student teachers about race, racism and anti-racism. The findings from the literature review and survey were then utilised to construct the anti-racism framework for ITE/T for England, which was written to provide such guidance within a policy landscape which is argued as de-racialised. The chapter concludes with an imagined case study demonstrating how the framework could be used to support critical and informed reflections on the content of the current ITE/T curriculum to avoid damaging deficit assumptions about Black and global majority pupils and their schooling.