The Film Club session for this season was the American based documentary “Deconstructing Karen” (2022). The documentary consisted of GM Anti-Racist activists Regina Jackson and Saira Rao, hosting a dinner party in which they invite white women across the political spectrum, for a dinner party entitled, ‘Race2Dinner’. The dinner party sought to explore the explicit role that white women play in their complicity and upholding of white supremacy.

The session’s proceedings followed the usual format: watch the documentary in advance, then join us on Zoom for a one-hour discussion of the documentary. The discussion was chaired by co-founder of the Film Club, Saima Saleh, and the panellists included fellow founder of the Film Club Alexandra Brown and Rose Chantilke, PhD candidate and consultant.

As with previous years, the Race and Education Film club was fortunate enough to be able to provide an in person session of discussion of the documentary (following a carefully selected extract of the documentary), at the symposium at the Association of Moral Educators 51st Conference in Tampere, Finland.

Collaborators

Organisations we are collaborating with on this wider activity are:

• The Race and Multiculturalism SIG of the Association of Moral Educators (AME)
• The Journal of Moral Education Trust

We have received funding for our project through the generous support of a Small Grant from the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust.

Key aims of the project

• Consider theoretical and practical complexities for teachers of issues of race, intersected with religion and culture and education
• Showcase the contribution of Religion and Worldview Education (RWE) specialist teachers to critical reflection on race and education and by this means to promote an understanding of the subject’s distinctive curriculum contribution; developing leadership and research skills of 3 RWE practitioners by this means
• Encourage RWE practitioners to appreciate contributions to their subject from other experts outside the subject community in non-defensive ways
• Explore the potential of a new model of knowledge production and exchange built around discussion of a film using collaborative action research

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the film club at our email address: raceandeducationfilmclub@gmail.com.

Film programme