News | 5 February 2025
Bespoke anti-racist training will now be provided to student teachers doing their undergraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at Cardiff Metropolitan University in a first for the Welsh Higher Education sector.
The module, ‘Antiracism, Equity and Diversity: Pedagogy and Practice for Wales’, has been co-designed by members of the UG Primary ITE team from Cardiff Met and
Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning (DARPL). It supports the Welsh Government’s commitment to creating an
Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP) by 2030 and the
new Curriculum for Wales.
The DARPL vision is to ensure that those working within education are challenged, supported and resourced with tools for anti-racist leadership and practice.
The Antiracism, Equity and Diversity: Pedagogy and Practice for Wales module will be taught to level 5 English and Welsh-medium student teachers studying on Cardiff Met’s undergraduate BA (Hons) Primary Education (3-11 age range) with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) programmes from September 2025. The module will include anti-racist training and further prepare student teachers for a career in education by:
- Ensuring student teachers critically analyse the values and attitudes which underpin cultural diversity
- Provide opportunities for student teachers to engage in deep reflection regarding current research, reform and practice linked to antiracism, equity and diversity
- Enable and support student teachers to analyse and understand curricula and pedagogy that reflects the multiple and diverse histories and contributions of global majority groups and individuals
- Support student teachers to explore the origins and manifestations of racism (and inequality), as well as the history and development of Wales as a multicultural society
Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University and DARPL Founder and Director, Chantelle Haughton, said: “Cardiff Met’s BA with QTS programmes have always broadly covered content linked to inclusion, equity and diversity. To better equip student teachers and future generations, anti-racism support and learning needs to be enhanced and specific.
“This is a first for Wales in that this new module is the first undergraduate ITE module in Wales to be co-designed and co-delivered alongside DARPL, with DARPL’s Community of Practice at its core, aligned to contribute to Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan. In addition to this module, our ITE team is committed to an anti-racist curriculum and culture throughout the BA QTS courses.”
DARPL was designed by Chantelle Haughton in 2021 and is putting the University at the forefront of progressive national racial equity conversations and step-change in Wales.
