Here, there and everywhere

This book is an exciting and humane approach...an important resource to help guide schools through a difficult and challenging area of practice. --PHSE & Citizenship Update

Students at a rural secondary school set up a website in collaboration with students at a multi-ethnic school some 25 miles away. They wanted to explore differences and similarities between their schools and to share reports and reflections about the projects they were doing jointly. They called the site Here, There and Everywhere, after the Beatles' song. The title also captures the spirit and concerns of this handbook exploring how issues of belonging, identity and equality can be here, there and everywhere in every school. A piece of forum theatre, Sticks, Stones and Macpherson, introduces the book. The overarching themes and big ideas that should permeate every curriculum subject and all aspects of the hidden curriculum in the school are discussed. The discussions and examples are consistent with, but frequently go further than, statutory requirements and expectations. Training exercises and materials for staff discussion provide guidance on dealing with racist incidents and, finally, threads from the book are drawn together to support the creation and development of formal school policies. The book draws extensively on work developed in Derbyshire. It has been compiled and edited for Derbyshire Advisory and Inspection Service by Robin Richardson, a director of the Insted consultancy. He and Insted colleague Angela Wood are the authors of The Achievement of British Pakistani Learners.

This is an excellent, thought-provoking, no-punches-pulled resource that insists there are no easy answers, and yet manages to attach some handles to an extremely intractable problem. Times Educational Supplement