Discrimination types

Class Do and Don’ts

Mobiles off

Have fun Be on time

Respect each other

Be involved

Work Hard Take turns No eating in class Bring

pens/pencils

Session ObjectivesIdentify types of discrimination.

Describe examples of discrimination

Research and Create a plan for the relevant criteria point

What do you want to learn this session?

• Nearly a third (27%) of all 12-17 year olds have been threatened or verbally abused because of their religion.

• Two thirds (66%) of minority ethnic school children have experienced racist harassment.

• 48% of lesbian and gay students under 18 had been violently attacked. Nearly half of these attacks (40%) had occurred in schools.

Barnados, 2014

KEY WORDS in this session

Stereotyping- A generalised and simplistic mental idea of a

group which is usually negative.

PREJUDICE- Believing some people are inferior or superior

without even knowing them.

DISCRIMINATION- To act on the basis of prejudice.

What is discrimination?Making choices about how we treat other people. Can be made using real and relevant information. Can be based on prejudices and stereotypes.

DiscriminationEvery child has the right to live free from discrimination.(United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989)

Equality ActThe Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against someone because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Direct or indirectDirect discrimination Direct discrimination occurs where one person is treated less

favourably than another has been, is, or would be treated in a comparable situation.

Indirect discrimination Indirect discrimination occurs where an apparently neutral

provision, criterion or practice would put persons at a particular disadvantage compared with other persons.

A learner with a disability was not allowed to participate in a sports day.

How could discrimination be avoided? Direct

A teacher assessed the knowledge of a group of learners by requiring them all to write a report, even though one member of the group had a learning disability, which affected their ability to write effectively.

How could discrimination be avoided?

Indirect

Task-2.3

2.3 Give explanations of each type of discrimination to show an accurate understanding of each type: Race Culture Gender Social class.

Different cultures and religion

Racial, cultural and religion

What is this?

Belief that some races are more superior than others.

People have ideas that skin colour make people better than others.

Children from traveller families may also be discriminated against.

Example of religion discrimination

Only acknowledging Christian festivals such as Christmas and Easter.

This type of discrimination is usually based on ignorance or the desire to have power over others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N5aV0U7Atg

Sex discrimination

This occurs when people of one gender reinforce the stereotype that they are more superior to the other.

For example offering boys more opportunities for rough and tumble play than girls.

Encouraging girls to preform traditional female tasks such as cooking and washing.

Links to culture Sex discrimination can occur within some

cultures where one sex is valued more than others.

Social class

Social class

Social class include ability, family, background, accent, ethnicity, clothing, income, parental employment and educational background.

Children may be discriminated against because of poverty or living conditions.

Task – case study

2.4 Provide a discussion to show understanding of the potential effects of discrimination on children in the:

short termlong term

Case Study – Rashida’s tea A childcare worker is holding a cookery session in the

home corner. The project is ‘Making a cup of tea’. The childcare worker has asked one of the children

Rashida to make a cup of tea. Rashida picks up a saucepan and pretends to fill it with water, places a tea bag in the water and asks for green cardamoms, sugar and a pinch of salt.

The childcare worker explains to Rashida that she should have filled the kettle and ‘no, we do not boil the teabags in the water’ and ‘no, we don’t add bits of things to it, including salt’.

However, Rashida is making tea the way it is done at home (her parents make tea in this way, adding milk later and boiling it as described) 

Potential effectsWhat ideas can you think of ?

Unable to fulfil their potentialHard to form relationshipsAffected by stereotypesFeel shameThey feel they are to blameLack confidenceBe aggressive towards others

Homework

Research and identify current legislation that links to inclusive practice.

What is the one we have already mentioned?

Make sure it is the most updated version

Session ObjectivesIdentify types of discrimination.

Describe examples of discrimination

Research and Create a plan for the relevant criteria point

What do you want to learn this session?