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The black curriculum: putting black history at the heart of education

Nesta talks to... Lavinya Stennett
In A fairer start
23 Jun 2021 12:00 – 13:00
Online

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Social enterprise, The Black Curriculum, works to equip young people with a sense of identity and the tools for navigating a diverse landscape by addressing the lack of Black British history in the national curriculum.

Learning Black history should not be a choice but a fact of education, says the organisation’s founder, Lavinya Stennett.

Lavinya spoke to Nesta’s Dalia Ben-Galim about how Black history should be taught all year round, and how an Eurocentric curriculum does not reflect the multiethnic country we are living in.

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Lavinya Stennett

Lavinya is a writer, activist, and Founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum. Graduating with a first class from SOAS in 2019, she has most recently authored a paper exploring Maroon ecology in Jamaica and Brazil. Lavinya was recently named as one of the Sunday Times 50 Women of the Year and was awarded Trailblazer of The Year by Hello Magazine, as well as featuring in Vogue, and GQ for her activism. The Black Curriculum is a social enterprise founded in 2019, working to teach and support the teaching of Black history all year round, aiming to empower all students with a sense of identity and belonging.

Dalia Ben-Galim

Dr Dalia Ben-Galim is Interim Mission Director at Nesta. She is also a policy and research consultant who specialises in employment and family policy. Prior to freelancing, Dalia was Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parents, and before that Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) leading the organisation’s work on employment and families. Dalia holds a DPhil in social policy from the University of Oxford.

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23 Jun 2021 12:00 – 13:00
Online
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