Teaching Migration, Belonging, and Empire

To understand present-day Britain we must see our past fully and clearly. Migration and Empire are central to our national story. But how it is taught in schools, and more widely understood, is uneven.

The Runnymede Trust and The ERC-TIDE project (University of Liverpool) will launch our briefing Teaching Migration, Belonging, and Empire, 4th July 2019, Committee Room 9, 5-7pm.

Using the findings from our Teacher Fellowship and a literature review by Jason Todd, University of Oxford, we highlight: what is currently being taught, the challenges facing teachers and how the teaching of Empire can be expanded and improved in schools.

Chaired by Dawn Butler MP, Shadow Women & Equalities Secretary

Speakers will include:

Prof Nandini Das, Professor of English Literature & TIDE project director, University of Liverpool

Jason Todd, Teacher Education Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Lauren Cowan, Teacher & TIDE Fellow, Alexandra Park School, Haringey

Hannah Cusworth, Teacher & TIDE Fellow, Charter School East Dulwich

There will be presentations followed by a Q&A discussion.

With Britain’s relationship to the world in question, conversations about who we are and how we got here are more salient than ever.