What you need to know about Children and Racism
Research Staff
Professor Robbie Gilligan (PI)
Dr Philip Curry (Co-PI)
About the Project
This Knowledge Exchange Project aims to engage in a mutually informative dialogue with a range of key stakeholders (e.g. teachers, parents, social workers, school principals, policy makers) around important issues to do with children and racism. We are using a variety of media and activities to communicate key messages derived from new Irish (Curry, Gilligan, Garrett and Scholtz, 2011) and recent international research about children’s experience of racism:
- Early onset of ethnic awareness
- Occasional intensity of negative views of minorities
- Occurrence of racial bullying
- Invisibility to adult eyes
- Mental health consequences
- Possible courses of action.