Towards Anti-Racist Teaching

Alessandra Bilani

I would like to share a Padlet that is a collaborative work in progress and aims to gather concrete proposals for moving towards anti-racist teaching. The Padlet is bilingual (Dutch and French), but feel free to add your proposals even if you are unable to translate them into Dutch. I suggest organizing workshops, discussion groups, or meetings within your institutions to discuss this. Here is a proposal for how such a session could be structured: Show some examples from the Padlet.

This can be easily done by clicking on the triangle on the right. You then start a presentation. Individual writing time: each person notes down their ideas. In small groups, ideas are exchanged. One person is the secretary and takes notes to have a written record. In the large group, each group shares a few ideas. After the session, one person from each group adds the ideas to the Padlet. For a theoretical introduction, I recommend ‘L’école de l'inégalité - Nico Hirtt (2004)' and 'Onderwijs in een gekleurde samenleving - Orhan Agirdag (2020)' (in Dutch). Both books discuss the Belgian context. The dimensions for multicultural education, formulated by James Banks, have inspired a large part of the proposals on the Padlet. Here is the link:

https://padlet.com/alessandrabilani/culturele-diversiteit-op-school-la-diversit-culturelle-l-col-d5nglydn9q0h3gqg