Falkirk anti-racist education: find out more

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This downloadable document (in PDF format) - An Equal Start - contains the equality commissions' advice for early years staff. It provides practical advice on inclusion and educating against discrimination, including racial and sexual discrimination.

PDF file: An Equal Start

This staff development resource - the Anti-Racist Toolkit - is particularly useful for teachers who are at an early stage of developing an anti-racist approach to their practice

Persona Dolls

These dolls are a useful resource to explore issues of :

• racism
• bullying
• disability, and
• gender.

Although this case study uses the dolls with young children, older children could be involved in creating and researching personas for the dolls and some secondary drama departments have used these dolls with older children to produce puppet shows on citizenship issues.

Further information, an excellent training video, books and speakers can be accessed at the persona dolls website.

Babette Brown at Persona Dolls has also written two useful books for early years practitioners working in this area ‘Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years’ and ‘Persona Dolls in Action’. Both can be ordered from the website.

‘The Little Book of Persona Dolls’ by Marylyn Bowles includes ideas on how to  get you started and how to develop work with these dolls further. This is available from the publishers, Featherstone Education.

Read more about a case study of another Persona Doll, Sibel, who moved to Britain from Iran. This project was devised by Portsmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service specifically to help children to identify with refugee and asylum seeker children.