Anti-Racism
Racism is a significant barrier to students’ ability to feel safe, learn and make friends at school. Educators can play an instrumental role in working against racism and toward inclusion, belonging and recovery for learners with refugee experience.
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Harmony Week and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in NSW Schools
Image Source: DIAC Images Read our tip sheet on observing Harmony Week in a way that incorporates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
All One Under the Sun
All One Under the Sun 'All One Under the Sun' is a remedy to racism campaign for the whole community, driven by young people and using the arts to promote…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Conclusion: Anti-Racism and Inclusion in Schools
Rafik Tanious returns to Hints for Healing to tie together the four episodes on racism and anti-racism leave you with some concluding remarks. We hope this season has been helpful in…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Ep 4- Personal Racism: How Racism Impacts the Developing Individual
In this episode, STARTTS School Liaison Officer, Rafik Tanious, discusses how all forms of racism impact on the developing individual and highlights how schools can work against racism and toward…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Ep 3: All One Under the Sun: Arts-Based Opposition to Institutional Racism
In this podcast, Dianne Jacobus (STARTTS’ Coffs Harbour Youth Community Development Project Worker) discusses three arts-based anti-racism projects she has worked on in Coffs Harbour: All One Under the Sun,…
Hints for Healing Podcast S3; Ep 2: Combating Institutional Racism in Schools
In this episode, Marica Stipanovic (Principal Policy Officer, Anti-Racism, NSW Department of Education) discusses how the NSW Department of Education is tackling racism and shares highlights from the Department's 2022…
Hints for Healing Podcast S3 Ep 1: Structural Racism with Dr Virginia Mapedzahama and Rafik Tanious
In this episode, Dr Virginia Mapedzahama (African Women Australia) and Rafik Tanious (STARTTS) discuss structural racism in Australia and what is needed to combat it effectively. African Women Australia Diversity…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 3 Introduction
In Season 3, Hints for Healing examines four forms of racism, how racism impacts on learners with refugee experience and what is being done to combat this. In this introduction,…
Culturally and Therapeutically Savvy Engagement with Learners and their Families with Refugee Experience
By Rafik Tanious, School Liaison Counsellor/Project Officer Rural and Regional NSW, STARTTS Image credit: Steve Snodgrass 16 October 2020 How do we make education engage with the life-worlds of learners…
Hints for Healing Podcast S1; Ep9 – Third Space and Intercultural Learning: Providing Pathways for Safety and Healing in the Classroom
Rafik Tanious is an education and mental-health professional and film maker, who specialises in cross-cultural therapeutic interventions and inter-cultural learning. In this discussion with Nicole Loehr, they address the…









