Addysg Cymru | Education Wales
Professor Charlotte Williams: Bringing Black and Minority Ethnic Histories into the Welsh Curriculum
Episode notes
Wales is set to become the first nation in the UK to make the teaching of Black, Asian and minority ethnic history mandatory in the school curriculum. In this podcast Dr Anita Shaw talks to the woman who played a major part in bringing this landmark change about. Professor Charlotte Williams OBE is the daughter of a Welsh-speaking mother and a father from Guyana and she shares her experiences of growing up in Llandudno as the only black pupil in her class. We hear about her mission to make it the right of all pupils to an education that equips them to understand and respect their own and each other’s histories, cultures and traditions.