GEReCo Open Forum 2021: Anti-racist Learning and Teaching in School Geography?
Channel: GEReCo UK IGU-CGE
Date: 08/11/2021

This forum engaged with geographers’ work on anti-racism and think through the ways in which it might be applied in school geography.

Anti-racist learning and teaching in British Geography (Esson and Last, 2020 - https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.12658) examines how learning and teaching in UK Higher Education has functioned to reinforce racism, but also has the potential to counteract it. Dr James Esson (Loughborough University) and Dr Angela Last (University of Leicester), and school geography teacher, and PhD researcher (IOE, UCL), Iram Sammar, talked about the ways in which anti-racist learning and teaching might be realised in school geography.

Websites and pieces mentioned:
https://mutablematter.wordpress.com/
https://barcworkshop.org/
https://raceingeography.org/
https://decolonisegeography.com/
http://geographyworkshop.com/ including the archive Contemproary Issues in Geography and Education: http://geographyworkshop.com/2018/03/29/archive-afterlives-digitising-cige/
http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/rampton/
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/Runnymede%20Secondary%20Schools%20report%20FINAL.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00167487.2020.12106474
https://decolonisegeography.com/blog/2021/02/why-do-we-need-to-decolonise-geography/
https://www.nationalequityproject.org/framework/lens-of-systemic-oppression
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03098268908709054