{"id":1872,"date":"2019-06-12T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2019-10-02T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:43:29","slug":"anne-frank-programme-important-in-challenging-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2019\/06\/12\/anne-frank-programme-important-in-challenging-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Frank programme important in challenging prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New research by Kent Psychologists, Katie Goodbun and Professor Dominic Abrams, has shown that a school programme to teach young people about the life of Anne Frank can help them learn to challenge prejudice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research found that, after completing a schools programme run by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annefrank.org.uk\/\">Anne Frank Trust UK<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>over 97% of students felt more open and positive about at least one other group in society who are different to themselves.<\/strong>\u00a0These groups included Muslims, Jews and homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>The study also found that after completing the programme,\u00a0<strong>young people were less likely to ignore incidents of hate-related bullying and felt more confident in reacting to it.<\/strong>\u00a0They also reported a significant increase in their knowledge about prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annefrank.org.uk\/education\/schools-programme\/\">Anne Frank Trust UK schools programme\u00a0<\/a>teaches young people about the life of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.annefrank.org\/en\/anne-frank\/who-was-anne-frank\/\">Anne Frank\u00a0<\/a>against the backdrop of the Holocaust.\u00a0<strong>It has been delivered to over 800 schools nationally to help young people to learn about the dangers of prejudice and discrimination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the full news story, please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/22677\/psychologists-show-importance-of-anne-frank-education-programme-in-challenging-prejudice\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by Kent Psychologists, Katie Goodbun and Professor Dominic Abrams, has shown that a school programme to teach young people about the life of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2019\/06\/12\/anne-frank-programme-important-in-challenging-prejudice\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[140632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}