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Teaching Racism, or Tackling It?: Multicultural Stories from White Beginning Teachers
Teaching Racism or Tackling It Multicultural Stories from White Beginning Teachers Author:Russell Jones This book unravels the institutional racism in education and shows how training student teachers in white regions leaves their stereotypical attitudes and racial prejudices unchallenged and even legitimates and reinforces them. The author shows how teachers describe their ethnic minority pupils as "thick as pigshit" and ignore racist abuse in th... more »eir placement schools, while protesting that they aren't racist. So do the students - but all resist the antiracist teaching delivered in their training institutions and all opt to work in "nice" schools with pupils from their class and background. Their construction of race and ethnicity, left in place, allow the students to construct ethnic minority pupils as the problem, or when these children conform and have professional parents, as white.« less