We have therefore decided to create the Global Reading Project at the Ursuline, recently acquiring in excess of two hundred new books, whose stories are set in countries all over the world, from Iran, Afghanistan and Kenya, to Denmark, Argentina, Jamaica and Japan. As journalist Alice Thomson recently wrote ‘the ability and the opportunity to read widely…to stand in the shoes of the different and the dead, to travel to other times and into other cultures… is an important part of being human’. And one way to increase the demand, and therefore the supply, of books by BAME authors or books that feature BAME protagonists, (and aren’t just considered to be ‘issue’ books), is to get them into the hands of our young people.Īdditionally, reading widely and diversely, exposes the reader to different worlds and cultures, introduces new perspectives and ways of looking at the world, in ways that films, television shows, and blog posts are simply unable to. In this day and age, it is essential that our children and young people read books whose stories reflect their own realities, as well as books that offer windows into different cultures and worlds. But why the need for such a project?Īccording to a 2017 DfE study, 32.1% of school children in England were of minority ethnic origins, and in inner city London schools, this percentage can only be expected to be higher.įurthermore, research undertaken by senior lecturer at London’s University College, Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, has shown that between 2006- 2016, only 8% of young adult fiction books published in Britain were by authors of colour.
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