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Tolerance, Equality, Difference

Insted - equality and diversity in education

In Support of Tolerance, Equality, Difference

Welcome

New in March 2023

Inner Character

Letter to a national newspaper, 2022

Diverse origins and skin tones; inner character and outward actions; due regard and measurable objectives; Equality Act 2010; intolerable wrestle.

Inner Character
 

Why So Angry?

Notes for a talk, autumn 2022

Difference and disagreement, the case of Brexit; the Covid-19 pandemic; traumas and grieving; the need and search for healing.

Middle Egland
 

I'll Huff and I'll Puff

Review of documentary theatre

Trojan Horse affair; relics of colonialism, white supremacy and Islamophobia; hopes, energies and courage; mending and healing.

Documentary Theatre
 

I Don't Care

Handout at a training course

Early years; reading and writing; lower secondary; exclusions; young adult; violence; custody; despair.

I Don't Care
 

Unfinished Stories

Tribute to a great teacher

Islamophobia as a form of racism; toxic religion and healthy religion; the 7/7 bombs in London, 2005; Mullah Nasruddin; British Islam.

Tribute to a great teacher
 

The Equalities Story, 1965─2010

First five principal stages

Campaigning and clarifying; key acts of parliament; the fundamental concept of due regard; the international context.

The Equalities Story, 1965-2010
 

The Equalities Story, 2011─2023

Twelve years of disappointment

A promising start but then increasing failure by central government to have due regard for the law's requirements.

The Equalities Story, 2011─2023
 

The Equalities Story, 2024 onwards

Revisiting, revising, renewing the Equality Act.

Clarify the concept of due regard; re-emphasise specific duties; activate, revise and clarify the socio-economic duty.

The Equalities Story, 2024 onwards
 

We Here Today

Speech at a wedding, autumn 2022

Healing cascades of trauma, othering and inequality; making the planet safer for future generations; optimism, hope and intention.

We Here Today
 



HEARTS, MINDS AND COVID

A SELECTION OF USEFUL WEBSITES

Staying Home


NEW TO THIS SITE, OR RETURNING AFTER A TIME AWAY?
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:

New in Spring 2020

New in Spring 2019

New in Autumn 2018

New in Autumn 2016

New in February 2016

New in Summer 2015

New in Summer 2014

New in Summer 2013

Papers added or updated in January 2013 include the following:

Equalities in education

Islamophobia

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

The public mood

General Policy

Personal

Also, the following papers have been updated:

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