I have raised the point of teachers needing training in Black British history at my university and was told that the requirements for teacher training do not allow for anything but (at best) a cursory glance at Black history. We would have to find a progressive university to incorporate such (for them) radical thinking. However, as a team BASA could present a clear plan detailing exactly how BASA could help to train teachers. What does everyone think?
GW
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From: The Black and Asian Studies Association on behalf of hakim adi
Sent: Tue 12/10/2010 17:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Evaluating Black History Month
One question connected with the teacher training that Marika and Alex propose is who is going to teach the trainers?
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:52:57 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Evaluating Black History Month
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> BHM seems to have become a time/space in many parts of the UK for 'ethnic'
> music/food/dance. History? No!
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> While I have a huge problem with confining the eg 2000 year history of
> Africans (and also of South Asians)in Britain to one month, would even one
> month of lectures/displays/films be better than nothing?
>
> What we need, as Alex said, is a change in what is taught in teacher
> training colleges as well as compulsory in-service training for all
> teachers. It is high time they all learned of the contributions to
> 'Britishness' by the many immigrant groups (after all, the Brits are all
> immigrants!); and also about the contributions to world
> culture/advance/development by India, China, Africa for the past few
> thousand years!
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