Professional diversity and common goals.

Laura (Mole) Chapman

Welcome

Ground RulesWhat do you need to participate?

Shared Outcomes:

• What do you know?

• What do you want to know?

Acceptance of Diversity: Learning and Development

• Understanding that each individual is unique, and recognising our differences.

• Everyone is entitled to dignity and respect. • It is the exploration of people’s differences that

enable a safe, positive, and nurturing environment. • It is about understanding each other and moving

beyond tolerance to embracing and celebrating the dimensions of diversity contained within each individual.

Stereotypes of Marginalised groups

Myths and assumptions Organisation & Systems

I feel I act

Community Reaction / professional behaviour

What do I need to belong?

COMMUNITIES OF BELONGING

COMMUNITIES OF BELONGING

Locality

Disabled children

Schools

Toddler groups

Outsiders

Insiders

Hard to reach

Polish people

Pockets of deprivation

Inclusive practice:

"Inclusion is a process of identifying and breaking down barriers which can be environmental, attitudinal and institutional. This process eliminates discrimination thus providing all children and young people with equal access to play.”

“Is an ongoing process of reviewing and developing practice in order to adjust and celebrate diversity. It is the journey not the destination!”

Principles of Inclusive Practice

• Equality • Diversity• Balance• Fluidity• Ethical Commitment

• Chapman, l. 2010, pg. 20

Whose slice?Inequality is best explained as a powerful social force that generates community divisions and oppression.

Inequality weakens community life, reduces trust and increases violence across populations.

Asset-Based Community Development

Positive and Possible

• Everyone can do something to contribute towards greater fairness, while not everyone will do the same thing in the same way.

• The challenge then is to accept that the change is possible if people are able to appreciate a whole diversity of positive actions.

• Rather than a step-by-step approach or a scale of difficulty, an acceptance of diverse routes to a more human experience.

Chapman, l. 2010, pg. 35

Reference • Chapman, L. (2011). A Different Perspective on Disability Equality, a practical handbook.

Huddersfield: EQT Publishing.

• Chapman, L. (2010). A Different Perspective on Equality, a practical handbook. Huddersfield: EQT Publishing.

• Chapman, L., & West-Burnham, J. (2010). Education for Social Justice. London: Continuum Press.

• Dorling, D. (2011). Injustice, why social inequality persists. Bristol: The Policy Press.

• Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset, The new psychology of success. New York: random house.

• Fullan, M. (2011). The Moral Imperative Realized. Thousand Oakes: Corwin sage.

• Gardner, H., Csikzentmihalyi, M., & Damon, W. (2001). Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. New York: Basic Books.

• Gladwell, M. (2008). Blink. London: Penguin Books.

• Kretzmann, J., & McKnight, J. (2003). Building Communities from the Inside Out. Chicago: ACTA Publications.

• Russell, C. (2012). Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Asset Based Communtiy Development (ABCD). Glasgow: Inspiring Inclusion.

• Russell, C. (2011). Supporting Asset Based Community Development Pathfinder Initiatives: A Primer . Dublin: ABCD Institute Europe.

• Sennet, R. (2003). Respect, the formation of character in an age of inequality. London: Pengiun group.

• Shakespeare, T. (2006). Disability Rights and Wrongs. Abingdon: Routledge.

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