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Amid calls to decolonise the curriculum & in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter
, #BlackHistoryMonth is more crucial than ever in providing an opportunity to reflect on campaigns for inclusive education & a criminal justice system free of institutional racism
Tyrell Willock
Amid calls to decolonise the curriculum & in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter
, #BlackHistoryMonth is more crucial than ever in providing an opportunity to reflect on campaigns for inclusive education & a criminal justice system free of institutional racismTyrell Willock
Our new report explains how the ‘PRU-to-prison pipeline’ provides a visual representation of the ways in which education and criminal justice policies interact with each other to exclude, marginalise and ultimately criminalise young black people. https://irr.org.uk/article/beyond-the-PRU-to-prison-pipeline/
But it is also important to recognise that the PRU-to-prison concept, in itself, does not make visible the wider processes that brought the pipeline about.
‘People must be educated once more to know their place’
In the 1980s, politicians moved to erase the gains in education, particularly around the curriculum, made by black self-help groups, civil rights projects, anti-racist teachers and others.
In the 1980s, politicians moved to erase the gains in education, particularly around the curriculum, made by black self-help groups, civil rights projects, anti-racist teachers and others.
In England, this erasure of radical challenges to a curriculum that excluded the experiences of multiracial youth has coincided & compounded the spike in school exclusions leading to the creation of Alternative Provision - now viewed as a viable alternative for disaffected youth.
This has taken the form of the state implementing a monocultural and ethnocentric National Curriculum, underpinned by ‘Fundamental British Values’ whilst removing forms of progressive multiracial education (multicultural and anti-racist) from school curriculums.
This onslaught on the black radical tradition & its vision of an anti-racist and culturally inclusive education is part of a system of ‘educational enclosure’ through which the state takes back control of education & stymies calls for a more egalitarian & just education system
That brief period of black radical antiracist history in the UK (we will not call it a ‘moment’), was overtly contested by the Thatcher government which viewed anti-racism as a subversive force. This report recounts that history to show how the past continues to shape the present
Find out more by reading the full report on our website 
https://irr.org.uk/article/beyond-the-PRU-to-prison-pipeline/
https://irr.org.uk/article/beyond-the-PRU-to-prison-pipeline/
