Understanding Prejudice and Education

Conrad Hughes is Director of La Grande Boissière, the International School of Geneva, Switzerland. He has published and worked with UNESCO, the United World Colleges and the International Baccalaureate.

• 1. Introduction – Situating Education and Prejudice Part One: Reducing Prejudice in the Individual 2. Understanding Beyond the Other - Bridges Across Prejudice 3. Critical Thinking and Prejudice 4. Metacognition as a Strategy for Recognising and Controlling Prejudice 5. Empathy and the Search for Common Humanity in the Face of Prejudice Part Two: The Conditions Necessary for Prejudice Reduction 6. The Contact Hypothesis as a Strategy against Prejudice 7. Learning to Live Together through the Principles of International Education Part Three: A Framework for Schools 8. A Prejudice Reduction Framework for Schools 9. Conclusion - 21st Century Challenges to Education and Prejudice

Conrad Hughes does us a real service in providing a very well-founded understanding of prejudice. But he goes further, and takes it beyond inert knowledge into cogent classroom practice aimed at countering prejudice, changing pernicious beliefs, and developing values which pay more than lip-service to this fundamental human right. This is a book for all teachers and those who train them.Professor Doug Newton, Durham University, UKConrad Hughes’ work is an original and profound contribution to academic literature in the field of education. He investigates a problem that is at once age-old and extremely contemporary: how to transform inequality and discrimination and by which intellectual, educational and pedagogical means. This book opens new theoretical and practical perspectives for critically-minded educators working in multicultural contexts.Professor Abdeljalil Akkari, University of Geneva, Switzerland Few writers could have a more suitable preparation for writing this book than Conrad Hughes...Critical thinking, a speciality of the author, is offered as a tool for clarifying and refining one's own thoughts and assumptions... These intangible topics are treated with all the competence and care one would expect from an authority on the IB's Theory of Knowledge programme.Richard Pearce, International Schools Journal, Vol XXXVII No. 2 April 2018