Community Cohesion Toolkits and Frameworks for Schools
This section includes links to a range of useful resources, toolkits and frameworks to support the delivery, implementation and validation of the Community Cohesion agenda in schools.
| National College |
Inspiring leaders of schools to improve children’s lives.
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| Stephen Lawrence Education Standard |
National Award for schools who demonstrate knowledge, understanding and evidence of promoting inclusion and race equality to help transform education.
For more details, contact:
Education Leeds Tel: 0113 3950009 |
| Who Do We Think We Are | |
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A framework for promoting racial equality for schools in Leicester. For more details, contact:
Khalid Mahmood (email: khalid.mahmood@sdsa.net) Schools Development Support Agency Tel: (0116) 299 5939 |
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Creating Harmonious Communities
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Project run by Race Equality Sandwell and the University of Kent which explores approaches to improving young children’s views of other ethnic groups. For more details, contact:
Belinda Blake (email: Belinda.blake@raceequalitysandwell.com) Race Equality Sandwell Tel: (0121 541 1775) |
| Football and Freedom |
Football and Freedom is a resource pack bursting with fun and informative teaching resources and activities for teaching children about South Africa through football. It enables teachers to use the excitement around the World Cup 2010 as a motivation for learning about South Africa. Although this pack has been produced for the World Cup year, most of the materials can be used at any time for teaching about South Africa
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| Show Racism The Red Card – Teaching materials | Campaign that uses football to educate against racism. |
| Global and Anti Racist Perspectives | Anti-Racism resources for teachers, developed in Nottingham |
| Kids Task Force – ‘Watch Over Me’ |
Watch Over Me is a series of broadcast quality soap dramas for secondary schools that stimulate class discussion and help teachers introduce challenging topics, including extremism and community cohesion, internet safety and diverting children away from gun and knife crime.
If you would like to view a DVD of the Watch Over Me series, please contact Noel Singh at Leicestershire County Council.
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| Community Cohesion Toolkit for Nottingham Schools (PDF, 1.1mb) | |
| Global Education Derby | A teacher’s guide to the Global Dimension in Education |
| Lessons from Auschwitz Project | Holocaust Education Project which aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust for young people, and to highlight what can happen if prejudice and racism become acceptable. |
| Lessons from Rwanda | Educational materials using the example of the Rwandan genocide to help promote respect for diversity. |
| The Holocaust Educational Trust | |
| Educational resources related to Holocaust Memorial Day | |
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Aiming to transform teaching and learning about the Holocaust.
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| Hidden Voices - Working with young refugees and asylum seekers (PDF, 2.70mb) | |
| Curve Leicester - Experience Curve |
For more details, contact: Alex Smith Email: experiencecurve@curvetheatre.co.uk Tel: 0116 2423562 |
| 1 Goal – Send my friend to School campaign | |
| Dealing with extremism resources in schools: WDWTWA document | |
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Education Pack which helps to challenge discrimination towards the Traveller, Gypsy and Roma Communities
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‘Near and Far’ (Asylum Seekers and Refugees Education)
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Interactive (DVD) learning resource to support young people to develop and explore their thinking about Asylum, and seeks to challenge prejudice, racism and misunderstanding. For further information, or to obtain a copy of the ‘Near and Far’ DVD, contact: Andrew Lake, Youth Worker – specialising in working with asylum seekers, refugees and ethnic minority communities.
Tel: 01509 267227 Email: andrew.lake@leics.gov.uk |
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‘RaceTracks’ (Anti-racism education)
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Resource pack for tackling racism with Young People If you would like a copy of the ‘RaceTracks’ resource pack, please contact Noel Singh at Leicestershire County Council
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| YHA Community Spirit Camps (YouTube) |
Opportunities for young people to participate in residential activity camps which promote Community Cohesion
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| Diversiton Academy | Free online training network which includes Religion and Belief ebooks |
| Morocco – a learning journey (Resource Pack) | A teaching resource which uses Morocco as a basis for learning French, via a cross- curricular, intercultural understanding approach. |
Further Information
Page Last Updated: 15 April 2011
