Professor Emerita Rowena Arshad, CBE, Chair in Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education.Tweeting personal and work interests.
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Enough!! Thanks to all I have interacted with on Twitter. I don’t post much now I am retired. However, you can now find me on bsky.app/profile/rowenaarsha…
James Baldwin said, ‘The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.’
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On this day in 1987, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin died. Rest in Power ✊🏿
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Remembering the formidable anti-racist campaigner Anwar Ditta.
A working-class Kashmiri woman, she was born in Birmingham and lived in Rochdale, sharing platforms with the likes of Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill and leading numerous anti-deportation campaigns. 🧵
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Review of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence should help ‘embed anti-racist education into every stage’, advises paper from @rowenaarshad tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @Emma_Seith @BERANews
Important to remember these brave individuals: Paul Stephenson, campaigner known for Bristol bus boycott, dies aged 87 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Thanks to Sídhe Press for a monumental editing effort & a brave work to bring this book of some of our poems into being.
We can now share the cover of this work. We are deeply grateful to to artist Imad Abu Shtayyah for giving us his permission to use his artwork 1/
ALT art work of woman in Palestinian Thobe with Hijab rising from rubble. Text: Keep Telling of Gaza Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps
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Kenni Hamilton Principal Teacher, West Lothian Council shares his leadership work on ‘Anti-racism at classroom and school level’
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It was wonderful to welcome @DrMoncrieffe to @MorayHouse for BERA Presidential seminar on "Anti-racism in Education" led by Professor @rowenaarshad and joined by colleagues from across UK. #BERA2025 @EdinburghUni
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Thank you to @MorayHouse @rowenaarshad @CarolCampbell4 for hosting @BERANews Presidential seminar series 1. Such very rich interactions from policy, research and practice. Learned a lot from Scottish education today and 4 nations interaction Willwrite this up for wider sharing.✅
@DrMoncrieffe introducing the BERA book on Decolonising the Curriculum - launch of book with over 50 contributors over the globe covering all levels of education
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Such a necessary conversation- next steps, or as @rowenaarshad says how do we build capability and capacity. Glad to be here on behalf of @SERA_Conference
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Purple Power! The new @BERANews collection includes over 50 educationalists sharing theory-driven research and practice ‘in effect’ Launches NOV 1st @BERANews @MorayHouse @EdinburghUni @AOlssonRost @LabakeFakunle @CarolCampbell4 @RIGENedu @rowenaarshad @CharteredColl @Counsell_C
📢Upcoming event
Presidential Seminar Series – Anti-racism in Education: Actions for next steps-Learning from Research, Policy and Practice @DrMoncrieffe
Supported by Race and Inclusivity in Global Education Network (RIGEN)@EdinburghUni
Find out more: bera.ac.uk/event/presidentia…
