Submitted on Monday 8th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make racial education a larger part of the National Curriculum in all subjects
The contributions of all ethnicities to all subjects needs to be acknowledged more by the curriculum. This has improved over the last few years but most subjects are still dominated by the contributions of white men and can be very UK-focused, which is not appropriate in a Global world.
I am a Biology teacher. In my subject, every scientist students need to know about is a white male, barring Rosalind Franklin. Students who are not white males have very few role models unless their individual teachers go out of their way to talk to them about non-white scientists. These discussions are hampered by the demands of the curriculum and exam prep. I know this is the case across other subjects as well, where the majority of case studies or texts are about or by white males.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality
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