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Penny Rabiger was a teacher for 10 years in primary and secondary schools. Penny works
with a range of grassroots, third sector, public sector and educational organisations on their
racial literacy as part of her independent researcher and consultant portfolio. As an Associate at the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at Leeds Beckett University, Penny designs and delivers racial literacy training and is Lead Coach for the Anti-Racist School Award programme. Penny completed her PhD in 2025 with an ethnographic study, which sheds new light on how schools in England experience a process of unlearning structural racism.
Racism is woven into everyday policies, practices and assumptions in education. In special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) this is stark: racially minoritised children are more likely to...
Continue reading blog postTo confidently address racial challenges in today’s schools, UK teachers must surpass superficial understandings of racism. ‘Racial literacy’ is the capacity to grasp how race and racism...
Continue reading blog postThe SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentation. The ‘Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded. You can view the...
Asking research participants ‘How did you come to be leading antiracism work across your school – were you pushed or did you jump?’ elicited varied responses, with most citing one event as a...
Continue reading blog postIN THIS SESSION Â Jumping and Pushing Through the Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice in Schools Penny Rabiger Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
