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Equality and Diversity: Making Inclusivity a Real Priority in Higher Education Curricula

Higher Education is called upon to represent the best of society. Espousing critical thinking, inter-cultural awareness, and the capacity to respond to modern societal needs, the Academy in the UK is now attempting to engage with notions of inclusivity that take in a range of recent legislative changes.

This page of the site (will be under construction for a while I suspect) contains briefing sheets and materials that can be used when beginning the debate within institutions about Equality and Diversity. Please use and amend as useful (I'd appreciate it if you'd reference it though).

The first briefings sheets will be introductory. I'm hoping to put up subsequent ones that explore the critical theoretical issues and approaches to Equality and Diversity. This may take some time :-)

Inclusive learning - some readings to get you started

Presentation given at the Equality Forward National Conference, Stirling, February 2009

What are the challenges of embedding Equality and Diversity in University Curriculum? Attach:Curriculum.pdf

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Race and Equality Briefing Handout:

(Useful place to start discussions with Departments) Attach:RaceandEquality.pdf

Racial equality toolkit (for institution and curriculum issues): http://www.universities-scotland.ac.uk/raceequalitytoolkit

C-SAP portal (under development) Teaching Race in Higher Education http://www.teachingrace.bham.ac.uk/index.htm

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LGBTQ Equality Briefing Handout

Introduction to some of the key areas in the literature as relevant to student learning experience and how academics approach their teaching and learning.

Updated introduction to LGBT students and learning at University is now available through the University of Glasgow's Learning and Teaching Centre at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_175529_en.pdf

Presentation (from Equality Forward Meeting, University of Abertay, October 2008) - Attach:LGBTLearning.pdf

Presentation (at Stevenson College, Edinburgh, January 2009) - Attach:Stevenson.pdf

Presentation at The Single Equality Act 2010: Embracing the Challenge Conference (Central College,Glasgow, October 2010) Attach:Central.pdf Attach:HandoutCentralCollege.pdf

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Additional resources:

Response (on-line journal) A journal which publishes papers and articles with a Diversity theme relating to learning and teaching in HE FE and community. The journal is online and available nationally and world wide:

http://www.derby.ac.uk/response

Equality Challenge Unit: Equality Challenge Unit supports the higher education sector in its mission to realise the potential of all staff and students whatever their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief or age, to the benefit of those individuals, higher education institutions and society.

Equality Challenge Unit was established in 2001 to promote equality for staff employed in the higher education sector. Its role was expanded in 2006 to cover equality and diversity issues for students as well as staff.

http://www.ecu.ac.uk/

SELF DIRECTED LEARNING TASK - INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM DESIGN, YR 2 PGCAP

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