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‘Our schools are failing mixed raced children’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Voice<\/a>
\nLondon, England, United Kingdom
\n2016-04-02<\/p>\n

Dinah Moreley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stereotypical expectations that this group have \u2018confused identities\u2019 often mean they experience racism from teachers and fellow pupils<\/em><\/p>\n

A REPORT by People in Harmony<\/a>, (PIH) the national charity for mixed race people and families has highlighted the experience of mixed race children in the education system. Stereotypical expectations that this group have \u2018confused identities\u2019 often mean they experience racism from teachers and fellow pupils. Here, PIH\u2019s Dinah Morley tells how the report and the seminars it was based on were put together.<\/p>\n

IT IS over a decade since People in Harmony (PIH) published Mixed Race and Education<\/em>: creating an ethos of respect and understanding, a conference report on mixed race children and young people in the education system.<\/p>\n

PIH has now revisited the subject of mixed race young people in education in a new report called Mixed Race and Education: 2015<\/em> in order to consider ways in which a better dialogue with schools could be achieved to help improve outcomes and to add some substance to a patchy body of research…<\/p>\n

…AWARENESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The debate in April 2015 facilitated by Martin and Asher Hoyles, educators and authors of books on race and culture, was constructed to address four specific topics that had arisen from the earlier seminar.<\/p>\n

Racism and discrimination in school was also discussed by the young people and parents. They identified:<\/p>\n