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 Sussex) 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.