In September 2011, we began a new project working with the charitable Development Education Centre in South Yorkshire, focusing on their school-based work to support dialogical learning with children from different cultural and ethnic groups. Teachers in primary and secondary schools received training and support in facilitating dialogical learning opportunities -- including Philosophy for Children -- for pupils, with the aim of enhancing communication and listening skills, empathy and mutual respect, and effective teamwork. A key feature of this work was that pupils were also engaged in a variety of activities to link up with pupils from other schools, including those from different cultural or ethnic groups. This included, at the end of each school year, face-to-face meetings and group activities between pupils from the different schools.
Robin Banerjee worked with Rupert Brown (Univ. of Βι¶ΉΣ³») and Carol Robinson (Univ. of Brighton) to support an evaluation of the work, both through the design and analysis of survey data and through in-depth interviews with school staff and the pupils themselves.