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Welcome
PATIENCE AND PASSION – AN ARCHIVAL SCRAPBOOK, 1963-2025.
so that it's much easier to navigate and consult.
Inner CharacterLetter to a national newspaper, 2022Diverse origins and skin tones; inner character and outward actions; due regard and measurable objectives; Equality Act 2010; intolerable wrestle. |
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Why So Angry?Notes for a talk, autumn 2022Difference and disagreement, the case of Brexit; the Covid-19 pandemic; traumas and grieving; the need and search for healing. |
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I'll Huff and I'll PuffReview of documentary theatreTrojan Horse affair; relics of colonialism, white supremacy and Islamophobia; hopes, energies and courage; mending and healing. |
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I Don't CareHandout at a training courseEarly years; reading and writing; lower secondary; exclusions; young adult; violence; custody; despair. |
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Unfinished StoriesTribute to a great teacherIslamophobia as a form of racism; toxic religion and healthy religion; the 7/7 bombs in London, 2005; Mullah Nasruddin; British Islam. |
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The Equalities Story, 1965─2010First five principal stagesCampaigning and clarifying; key acts of parliament; the fundamental concept of due regard; the international context. |
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The Equalities Story, 2011─2023Twelve years of disappointmentA promising start but then increasing failure by central government to have due regard for the law's requirements. |
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The Equalities Story, 2024 onwardsRevisiting, revising, renewing the Equality Act.Clarify the concept of due regard; re-emphasise specific duties; activate, revise and clarify the socio-economic duty. |
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We Here TodaySpeech at a wedding, autumn 2022Healing cascades of trauma, othering and inequality; making the planet safer for future generations; optimism, hope and intention. |
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If SO, YOU MAY LIKE TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE FOLLOWING:
RACIAL JUSTICE
The Devil is in the Detail – inclusive society, inclusive education
Classrooms and Corridors – government advice on racist bullying
Narrowing the Gaps and Black Achievement – a journey of improvement
ISLAMOPHOBIA
What U Lookin @? - us and them in this age of anxiety
Narrative, Nation and Classrooms – Britishness revisited
Islamophobia – cartoons, causes and counter-narrative
Remember, Remember - signs, sparkle and struggle
Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism? – terms and concepts revisited
'Islam' and 'The West' – histories and stories over the centuries
EQUALITIES
Equality Act 2010 – a quiz
The New Equality Act Starts Its Journey - a formal reminder and much neglect, 2011
Equalities in Education - memories, endings and what next
Inspecting Equalities – what Ofsted has expected
POLITICS
British Values, Brexit and Trump - a meditation for today
Where now for education policy? – memorandum for a party conference
Post-Brexit Counselling in Middle England - notes for a programme
Brexiting Britain in Troubling Times - reflections and resources
PERSONAL
Memorandum to Oppressors ─ including myself
Reflections from the decades – interview with Robin Richardson
CHECKLIST OF ALL ITEMS ADDED IN RECENT YEARS
New on this site in autumn 2022, mainly jottings from the past:
- Memorandum to Oppressors (1984) ─ including myself
- One Race, Many Racisms (1999) ─ and the unfolding of racial justice
- Remember, Remember (2012) ─ bonfires, fireworks, religion
- Dreaming of a Multicultural One Nation (2013) ─ the future of immigration
- Peter Delivers (2014) ─ horse, hoax, hysteria and hope
- Towards a Narrative (2020) ─ a scrapbook made in March
- Where We Are Now (2020) ─ and what next?
New in Spring 2020
- Love in the Time of Coronavirus - reflections and resources
New in Spring 2019
- Brexiting Britain in Troubling Times - reflections and resources
- Post-Brexit Counselling in Middle England - notes for a programme
- Brexit Tales - recent books, articles and reports
New in Autumn 2018
- Equalities in Education - memories, endings and what next, autumn 2018
- Reflections and Resolutions - views and voices over the years
- What U Lookin @? - us and them in this age of anxiety
- Defining and Describing Islamophobia - some notes and links
- Religion and Conflict Literacy - a memorandum, 2018
- Tributes, Remembrance and Respect - race equality and education
New in Autumn 2016
- British Values, Brexit and Trump - a meditation for today
- Making our states fair again - post-election reflections, November 2016
- Grief, anger and re-engagement - post-referendum thoughts and action
- A multi-storied nation - religion and belief in modern Britain
- Islamophobia, still a challenge to us all - 'what Muslims really think'
New in February 2016
- Learning to live together in 2016 – British Values and Prevent in schools
- Challenging extremism through education - a selection of links
- British identity and British values – muddles, mixtures and ways ahead
- Values – a model school policy statement
- School governors and British values – a statement of concern
New in Summer 2015
- Narrative, Nation and Classrooms – Britishness revisited
- Fundamental British Values – origins, controversy, ways forward
- Values – a model school policy statement
- The West and the Rest – stories from three places
- Challenging Extremism through Education – a selection of links
- Beyond Us and Them – first reflections on Charlie Hebdo
- Inspecting Equalities – what Ofsted has expected
New in Summer 2014
- Preventing and Addressing Extremism in Schools – a briefing note
- Questioning the Trojan Horse – key articles
- The Trojan Horse Affair in Birmingham – an overview of competing but overlapping narratives
New in Summer 2013
- Teachers, Your Countries Need You - history, nation and world war, 2014-18
- Press Release 03 July 2013
- Equality duties and equality challenges – current issues in education
- 'But aunt, she's so very ignorant' – learning and teaching history
- 'Pass it on, boys and girls, pass it on' – politics, education and race since 1981
- Islamophobia – a quiz, tasks and assignments
- The devil is in the detail – inclusive society, inclusive education
Papers added or updated in January 2013 include the following:
Equalities in education
- The Equality Act and the Pupil Premium Grant – tensions and convergence
- Reviewing the Public Sector Equality Duty – information for schools
- Red tape or responsible thought? – equality impact assessments and analysis
- Changing Life Chances – reflections and resources
- The changing legal framework – requirements and good practice (updated)
Islamophobia
- Countering Islamophobia through education – international guidelines
- Remember, remember, this month of November – bonfire night, 2012
- The nature of Islamophobia – recent books and articles
Please note also that this site now has a search facility (above). If you type in a word or phrase you will find that the first two or three items brought to your attention by Google are advertisements from around the Internet. But from then on everything will be from this website, and hopefully will be of relevance and use to you.
Additions in autumn 2012 included:
Equalities in education
- Equality principles and priorities – training handouts at one school
- A picture for the mind's eye – the three aims of legislation
- Equality objectives – smart and unsmart directions of travel
- African-Caribbean students in UK schools – an encyclopedia entry
- Citizenship education for all – engaging with extremism
The public mood
- They made us nicer people – the Olympics and Paralympics, 2012
General Policy
- What now in education? - memorandum for a party conference
Personal
- Reflections from the decades – interview with Robin Richardson
Also, the following papers have been updated:
- The changing legal framework – new tasks and challenges
- Equality and diversity – a model school equality policy
- Equality Act 2010 – a quiz
- Recording and reporting racist incidents – update
- Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism? – terms and concepts revisited
- 'Islam' and 'The West' – histories and stories over the centuries
- Multiculturalism – voices in the debate, 2005–2011
- Useful Websites
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