Exploring Our Roots Teaching Pack
Exploring Our Roots is a teaching pack providing material to raise awareness of the experiences of immigrants to Britain from the 1940s to 1975. It concentrates on the lives of Black and Asian people, the so-called ‘new communities’ and on their descendants. Pupils will gain a deeper understanding of the process of immigration and settlement, develop empathy with some of the difficulties immigrants faced and consider the processes of forming a new identity in the developing multicultural urban environment of Manchester.
The pack consists of a book and DVD. Quotations from life-story interviews were collected from people of South Asian, Chinese, West African and African Caribbean communities and these provide the central source sheets.
There are 5 sections or themes: Immigration, Settlement and Making Communities, Working Life, Culture and Identity, Generations On. Each section contains an introduction for teachers; a description of classroom activities; photo-copiable pupils’ pages with differentiated reading levels and worksheets.
There are also brief photo-copiable pen-portraits of all contributors.
The DVD contains material on the 5 themes.
The pack was created by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust. The DVD was created by artist Kuljit ‘Kooj’ Chuhan / Metaceptive Media .
