UCET Equalities Group
UCET Equalities Group
Is your work and/or your research related to equalities issues? Have you heard of the work of the UCET Equalities Group? If the answer to the last question is "no" and you are looking for a space to share your work with other colleagues who work in the area of equalities education in ITE then please consider joining the UCET Equalities Group. There are three meetings per year which are all held online. So there's no need for travel etc. You don't have to be a member of any other UCET Committee to join the group.
We have good representation across the group from the North and the Midlands (happy to welcome other interested colleagues from these regions) however there are very few members from London, the South-East and the South-West or indeed Norther Ireland or Wales. If you'd like to join the group then please email Max Fincher m.fincher@ucet.ac.uk
The UCET Equalities group was set up in January 2021. The Chair of the group is Professor Vini Lander, Leeds Beckett University.
Copies of presentations given at the group meetings, and across other UCET fora, are available to download on the sidebar opposite.
Teacher Education Student Census 2023
We need your help to gather demographic information of the student teacher population in England to understand the diverse nature of our student teachers. Please scan the QR code below to access the questionnaire:
Additionally, a link to the survey to share with your students can be found here.
Anti-Racist Teacher Education Network Launch (30th January 2024)
Are you a teacher educator committed to anti-racism? The Anti-Racist Teacher Education Network (ARTEN) is a long-established network which started in the 1980s to improve the content and teaching of antiracism in pre-service teacher education. However, as initial teacher education (ITE) policy changed and members of ARTEN retired the ground-breaking work of the network seemed to disappear off the ITE radar. It is with great pleasure and the support of the current members of ARTEN that the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at Leeds Beckett University would like to invite you to build the next iteration of ARTEN. The new network for teacher educators committed to anti-racism will build on the anti-racist schools’ award which has been developed at the Centre and the Leeds City Council and Liverpool City Council anti-racist schools’ networks.
How will it work?
The new ARTEN will largely be a virtual/online community which will develop anti-racist practice in ITE/T. There will be four meetings per academic year.
Who is it for?
The network will consist of teacher educators committed to anti-racism and racially-just teacher education. It will
include teacher educators in higher education, school mentors as well as ITE/T tutors in SCITTs who are willing to
share and develop their anti-racist practice.
What will it do?
The Network will have a page on the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality website, and we will look to develop videos and other resources which ITE/T tutors can download in order to develop anti-racist curricula, pedagogy and practice. ARTEN will showcase antiracist practice in ITE and develop a collegial approach to advancing anti-racism in ITE/T. In time, it may develop regional groups which could provide in-person support to colleagues wanting to develop antiracism in ITE/T related to the Anti-racism Framework for ITE/T. The network will provide a supportive environment to enable the collaborative development of anti-racist practice, support the
development of teacher educators wishing to embed anti-racism in their work with pre-service teachers and the network will seek to research anti-racism transformations in ITE/T.
The new ARTEN will be launched online on Tuesday 30th January 4-5pm. To book please register here.