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Classroom resources

A list of classroom resources for tackling issues of racism.

• HomeBeats CDROM
  The IRR's HomeBeats CDROM is an innovative use of PC technology which brings the issue of racism into the classroom with all the depth, complexity and accessibility that the issue deserves.
• Schools Against Deportations*
  A group campaigning against the damaging impact which the threat of deportation or actual deportation can have on children and young people studying in schools and colleges.
• Roots and patterns: educational resources
  A series of four educational booklets by the IRR covering the historical roots of racism and the fight against it.
• Trial and Error: learning about racism through citizenship education
  Imagine that the adults of the world have decided that the best way to deal with the planet's problems is to ask young people how to solve them. What would they say about racism? That is the premise behind this set of information sheets and teachers' notes, distributed on a CDROM, for use in key stages 3 and 4 of the national curriculum.
• New Europeans
  A video study pack to promote discussion on anti-racism in the new Europe. Price: £10 (inc. VAT and postage) available from: Development Education Despatch Unit, c/o Leeds Development Education Centre, Roundhay Resource Centre, Leeds LS8 4HS. Tel: 0113-278 4030.
• Inclusive schools, inclusive society: race and identity on the agenda
  By Robin Richardson and Angela Wood (Trentham Books*, 1999)
• Toolkit for tackling racism in schools
  By Stella Dadzie (Trentham Books*, 2000)
• Home from Home
  Save the Children and Salusbury WORLD, a refugee children's project based in Brent, London, have produced this guidance and resource pack for the welcome and inclusion of asylum-seeker and refugee children and families in schools.
• Student factfile
  For GCSE, GNVQ and further education college students looking for a summary of the issue of racism and education.
• The First Black Britons
  A 59-minute audio-visual teaching resource aimed at History and Citizenship students in Key Stages 2 to 4. Divided into three parts, the documentary is narrated by Eastenders' Gary Beadle and tells the story of the West Indian Regiment, the members of which became the first Black people to be granted British citizenship.
  Price: £14.99 (including VAT and postage), available from Sweet Patootee.
• Bradford Anti-Racist Projects
  A website for schools which aims to support the sharing of information, activities and projects that recognise the existence of racism in the Bradford District (and elsewhere), and that aim to help eradicate it.
• The Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) has resources for lessons on their website, including lesson plans on Arabs and Islam: the stereotypes.
• Refugee bibliography
  Selected bibliography on refugees and associated issues for teachers of the Citizenship Curriculum at Key stages 3 and 4 and 16+ education (pdf file, 56kb, October 2002).