Anti-Racist Education Resources
Anti-Racist Education Guide for Teachers
This guide provides links to a wide range of resources for any teacher wishing to become a more skilled and confident anti-racist educator. Suggestions of videos, podcasts, blog posts and teaching resources are included to help teachers understand more about racism, privilege and decolonising the curriculum. Created in partnership with the Anti-Racist Educator and updated in 2025.
Before you start
Taking a decolonial approach, this toolkit of reflective questions encourages you to critically reflect on, evaluate and reposition who and what is at the centre and the margins of the issues you plan to explore with learners.
Anti-Racist Classroom Resources for Secondary
In the section below, you can find a series of lesson plans and associated resources for Levels 3 and 4.
Navigating race – safer braver spaces
Guidance on activities to build a safer and braver space in class before exploring issues around race.
Understanding race
5 lessons to help learners consider the historical context of race and explore how it is socially constructed through genetics and health case-studies including COVID. Learners will examine evidence of structural racism and consider personal and collective actions of allyship.
Colonialism, Capitalism and Climate
A series of lessons to explore how colonialism, including the transatlantic slave trade, shapes our modern world now including our economic systems, capitalism and climate change and how these are all interconnected. This includes a focus on how Scotland has benefited and contributed to colonialism and must be part of the solutions.
Saving Whom? White Saviourism and Humanitarian Aid
A series of lessons to support learners to critically interrogate the historical roots of humanitarianism and foreign aid – key racist ideologies in the 19th century, the civilising mission and the white saviour complex – that continue to shape narratives about Africa, and the Global South more widely, today. Encouraged to question why these narratives persist and whom they may serve, learners investigate the role of conflict minerals in war-torn regions and discuss how populations can remain poor whilst they live in the most resource rich nations of the globe. Learners further reflect on their personal stake, their ability to act and opportunities to foster positive change.