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Invading Formal Education by Non-Formal Anti-Racist Campaigning

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Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools

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Over the years, the authors of this chapter have aimed to awaken different educational institutions to acknowledge and tackle racism. We have carried out anti-racist interventions into different educational and care contexts as part of our formal work as university teachers, as well as civic action in relation to a local Joensuu-based campaign, Meille saa tulla. In this chapter, we analyse our experiences of anti-racist interventions within fields of formal education, namely those of kindergartens and elementary schools. We also make an excursion to higher education by bringing out in the open some notes from our work as university teachers. By relying on critical autoethnography, we identify conflicts that occur when openly ideological anti-racist education is conducted within seemingly apolitical institutions of formal education.

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  1. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Päivi Armila, Anni Rannikko & Tiina Sotkasiira

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    Päivi Armila

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Armila, P., Rannikko, A., Sotkasiira, T. (2018). Invading Formal Education by Non-Formal Anti-Racist Campaigning. In: Alemanji, A. (eds) Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56315-2_6

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