Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

Redmayne Bentley Stockbrokers Logo
Sponsored by
Yorkshire’s Oldest and Award-Winning Stockbroker
Share Dealing and Investment Management Services
 
 
Saturday, 4th July 2009

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the n/a site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Holocaust lessons for teenagers aim to stamp out school racism



Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 15 September 2008
Education officials hope a new programme teaching children about the Holocaust will help stamp out racism in schools.

The Think Equal scheme has been designed by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) to get teenagers thinking about what lessons can be learned from atrocities in the Second World War.

The term-long course, aimed at 13 and 14-year-olds, will examine
the Nazi's attitudes to equality and human rights alongside racial tensions in today's society.

It will be launched today at a dinner to celebrate the trust's 20th anniversary, attended by schools minister Ed Balls and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel.

A trust spokesman explained: "The project reaches disaffected young people from multi-cultural backgrounds and focuses their understanding of the contemporary lessons of the Holocaust.

"Students are given the opportunity to consider their own individual identity, learn about the dangers of stereotyping and reflect on their responsibility as citizens today." The programme gives students the chance to hear a Holocaust survivor speak about their experiences.

It has been tested in inner city schools in London, including Tower Hamlets, Newham and Haringey, where teachers say they have seen an improvement in children's playground behaviour.

HET chief executive Karen Pollock said: "It has had a really positive effect. You could hear a pin drop when the children listened to the Holocaust survivor speak, and their thoughtful and intelligent comments showed they had really taken it on board.

"They may not have even thought about these issues before or related the past to what's happening around them now. Hopefully the next generation will create a better society and prevent anything like the Holocaust happening again.

"Already it's changed children's attitudes so they are integrating better in the playground."

The pilot project has been so successful it is being rolled out across the country.



The full article contains 310 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 15 September 2008 8:50 AM
  • Source: n/a
  • Location: Yorkshire
 
Prev
1
Next
1

Iftikhar,

London 16/09/2008 17:10:24


Muslim youths are angry, frustrated and extremist because they have been mis-educated and de-educated by the British schooling. Muslim children are confused because they are being educated in a wrong place at a wrong time in state schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. They face lots of problems of growing up in two distinctive cultural traditions and value systems, which may come into conflict over issues such as the role of women in the society, and adherence to religious and cultural traditions. The conflicting demands made by home and schools on behaviour, loyalties and obligations can be a source of psychological conflict and tension in Muslim youngsters. There are also the issues of racial prejudice and discrimination to deal with, in education and employment. They have been victim of racism and bullying in all walks of life. According to DCSF, 56% of Pakistanis and 54% of Bangladeshi children has been victims of bullies. The first wave of Muslim migrants were happy to send their children to state schools, thinking their children would get a much better education. Than little by little, the overt and covert discrimination in the system turned them off. There are fifteen areas where Muslim parents find themselves offended by state schools.

The right to education in one’s own comfort zone is a fundamental and inalienable human right that should be available to all people irrespective of their ethnicity or religious background. Schools do not belong to state, they belong to parents. It is the parents’ choice to have faith schools for their children. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim teacher or a child in a Muslim school. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. An ICM Poll of British Muslims show
Prev
1
Next

 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.