BERA Blog - Ethnicity and the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools across England

I co-wrote a blog post for BERA with Mona Sakr as a follow-up to our recent event on Ethnicity and the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools across England. See a snippet below, read in full here, or download as a pdf. here.

“In this blog post, Mona Sakr and Shaddai Tembo recap key points from their recent BERA event on race and ethnicity in the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools in England.

As part of the broader push towards greater equity in education, it has long been recognised that having a workforce that better represents the racial diversity within society is vital for a variety of reasons – including the character, ubiquity, pervasiveness, duration and importance of teaching as a social activity (Thomas, 2022). However, to date, many of the existing studies on the roles of race and ethnicity in the profession have taken place in primary, secondary and higher education contexts. As such, there has been little attention given to the workforce in the early years.”