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Past Work 2005-2007
Due to changes in funding arrangements by the Scottish Government from April 1st 2005, CERES while remaining a national centre concentrated on specific project work identified by the Government for the school sector. Previous developmental work with the sector, schools and communities was reduced. CERES has endeavoured to remain accessible to requests for speaking engagements, in-services and enquiries from teachers, pupils, parents and other education related personnel. However this has been reduced to a minimum unless directly related to current project objectives.
In the 2005-7 period, in addition to work on anti-sectarian education, CERES worked on three new projects.
- Staff Development resource on Equality, Inclusion and Anti-discrimination
- Mainstreaming Equality, Diversity and Anti-discrimination into the Curriculum
- Race equality and education
- Staff also visitedAuschwitz
Staff Development resource on Equality, Inclusion and Anti-discrimination
This is a staff development resource primarily for teachers. However, some of the material is useful for probationer teachers joining an authority or school, new staff, parent/carer members on Parent Councils, or volunteers working within a school.
The pack contains several sections:
• a DVD, “What’s equality to do with us?”;
• Framework for Mainstreaming Equality into A Curriculum for Excellence
• Diversity quiz;
• Case studies; (sample case study)
• Frequently Heard Comments and worksheets;
• Guidance for Equality Assurance in Education within Local Authorities’;
• Planning for Excellence in Equality, Inclusion and Anti-discrimination in Schools;
• Guidance for Selecting Equality and Anti-Discrimination Trainers
This resource will be available in Summer 2008.
Mainstreaming Equality, Diversity and Anti-discrimination into the Curriculum (in partnership with the City of Glasgow Council)
This project(formerly known as Project 4) has produced a Framework for Mainstreaming Equality into the Curriculum for Excellence. It has also produced materials for Primary English** and Environmental Studies.**
For secondary, there are Maths materials for S1 and S2 and English Standard Grade in Prose and Poetry.
There are also 8 lesson ideas** suitable for primary and adapting for secondary to raise discussion with pupils about prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.
** Please note, that these are DRAFT documents. Only the Prose material in secondary is provided. All materials will eventually be uploaded onto the Learning and Teaching Scotland Inclusive Education site for the start of the 2008/9 school session.
Race equality and education
This project had three aspects:
- to explore how quality improvement frameworks for education services within local authorities took account of race equality in schools. A summary and full report was produced in 2006.
- how was ‘ promoting good race relations’ being taken forward in schools. A summary report was produced in March 2007.
- to explore how the 32 education services in local authorities in Scotland were managing provision to meet the needs of pupils from different faiths within schools in their authorities. Fifteen responses were received. A summary report will be placed on the CERES site in the future.
Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Rowena Arshad, Alan Bell and Edna Sommerville were fortunate to obtain 3 places on a trip organised by Jim Murphy MP in November 2005 to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. The trip was primarily for Scottish secondary school pupils and 100 secondary pupils went on the trip. Read more about the visit.
- Staff Development resource on Equality, Inclusion and Anti-discrimination
- Mainstreaming Equality, Diversity and Anti-discrimination into the Curriculum
- Race equality and education
- Staff also visitedAuschwitz