A mainstreaming approach Jill Hammond Kath Bridger Ranjana Thapalyal BSV Associates Ltd Equality Act 2010 Public sector equality duty Scottish specific duties to mainstream the consideration of equality and due regard to the PSED for all protected characteristics ID: 635604
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Embedding equality consideration into academic programme development and delivery:
A mainstreaming approach
Jill HammondKath BridgerRanjana Thapalyal
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Equality Act 2010
Public sector equality duty
Scottish specific duties to: - mainstream the consideration of equality and due regard to the PSED for all protected characteristics
- Equality Impact Assessment
QAA code of practice
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Moving the equality agenda ‘from the margins to the mainstream’
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² Mainstreaming : a holistic approach to embedding equality consideration for all protected characteristics in all decision making, policy, process and practice
Race addressed as specific aspect of considering equality and understanding different equality perspectives
Equality impact assessment used as a tool and a vehicle for engagement
¹ Thomas et al, 2005
² May & Bridger 2010
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Our approach
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‘An opportunity for people to think for themselves in the context of their own work’
Action learning project delivered through supported CPD
Mainstreaming = continuous improvement and better performance = quality enhancement
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‘It moves (equality consideration) from being a legislative requirement to something which shows the potential for improvement’
Improving attainment and the student experience through
quality enhancement:QAA Quality Code key values include:- all students are treated fairly, equitably and as individuals
- all policies and processes are regularly and effectively monitored, reviewed and improved
Practice based approach to embedding equality consideration
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‘We tend to take equality impact to be minimal – an assumption based on a lack of any major or obvious disruption’
Time out to develop understanding of equality perspectives
Work with different colleagues
Engage in dialogue and debate
Playing to academic strengths – research and inquiry
Draw on people’s intrinsic commitment to provide the best experience and outcomes for students
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‘It has brought equality to the forefront of our thinking by requiring us to write it down’
Institutional capacity to engage effectively:
All academic areas engaged in considering equality and assessing impact as an integrated part of day to day practice
Consideration of equality mainstreamed into governance and management structures and processes
Equality is on the agenda!
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Developing an approach to embedding equality in learning and teaching
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A blank sheet of paper:
No template
No guidance
Just institutional commitment from the top and facilitated support
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Challenges:
The ‘
I already do this’ factorWe have a learner support function for all that
I’m too busy
A blank sheet of paper is difficult
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‘Unfounded assumptions can be made about what’s good for students’
Post-graduate School S
tudent feedback group’s focus:The process as a mechanism to highlight issues both in respect of where action is and is not being taken
Consideration of the appropriateness of the mechanisms for student feedback and the results it produces
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“Shades: Yoruba and Ancient Indian ideas on space, creativity and self”
An undergraduate historical and critical studies 8-week elective 2003-2013
author/tutor
Ranjana
Thapalyal
(title changed in 2013 to “Contemporary Contexts for Yoruba and Ancient Indian ideas on space, creativity and self”)
Has led to current research titled “An African and Asian Interface for Philosophy of Art Education” and has been applied to general pedagogic principles of the
M.Res
in Creative Practices at GSA
Impact of powerful engaging curriculum material from regions and thought systems not generally included in the contemporary art or art historical canon at art school
The ‘just do it’ approach - inclusion normalises diversity in curriculum too
Students often more receptive than than staffSlide14
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Traditions of criticality and intellectual enquiry have ancient precedents all over the world
Why is this still news in so many HE environments?What is the impact of social justice and equalities, of omissions of such information from the curriculum?
Prose poem recorded in 1954 in praise of Ogun
The light shining in Ogun’s eye
is not easy to behold
Ogun, let me not see the red of your eye…
Ogun is a crazy
orisa
who still asks questions after 780 years!
Whether I can reply
Or whether I cannot reply,
Ogun, please don’t ask me anything.
Barnes, S T (1989)
Africa’s Ogun Old World and New
Indiana University Press
Speculation as a means of determining truth in
sanskritik
traditions
pradhyAna
(n)-subtle speculation
tarkajvAlA
(
f)- flame of speculation
tarkin
(
adj
)- skilled in speculation
satarka
(
adj
)- skilled in speculation
tarka
(m)- system or doctrine founded on speculation or reasoning
Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary
http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?scriptHK&beginning=0+&tinput=+speculation&trans=Translate&direction=AU Slide15
Theoretical
critiques of 20th century ideologies – the postmodern turn can
inadvertently facilitate a sidestepping of engagement with equalities issues“Significant in the debate about racism and academic ethics is that the issue of individual culpability is conflated with heady invocations of academic freedom, censorship and free speech.
So raising
… issues
of racism is immediately reduced to a stifling political correctness. … (and) the consequences of (racist) ideas being expressed are sidestepped.”Les Back in Law et al (2004) “Ivory Towers? The Academy and Racism” p 3
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Alain
Badiou makes a case for the examination of 20th
century visions and events, including its contradictions:“… my aim is not to rehabilitate the century, but only to think it, and thus show how it is thinkable. What should primarily arouse our interest is not the century’s ‘worth’…. Instead let us attempt to isolate and work through a few enigmas.”
Alain
Badiou
(2008) The Century, p6BSV Associates LtdSlide17
Our approach in action
Reflective Dialogue
Triad Group DiscussionsExercise modeled on Brockbank, Anne and McGill, Ian (2007) Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education, 2nd
edition,
Open University Press
Previously adapted as an interdisciplinary workshop in the M.Res in Creative Practices, GSA 2011.
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Work in groups of 3
Discuss your / your colleagues’ departmental understanding of race equality in HE using topic allocated to your group
Rotate roles of:- Presenter
- Enabler
- Reporter
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‘This has prompted us to talk about the culture of assessment and think about it differently’
Implications for inclusive learning and teaching at GSA:
Equality consideration placed at the heart of the development of learning and teaching practice
Development and delivery are based on evidence and understanding rather than assumption
Cross departmental working to tackle identified equality impacts linking to internal and external priorities / drivers
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“This is just the beginning for this work which will provide quality improvement in our programme”
Value of the approach in an academic context:
Grass roots development
Relevant and appropriate within a framework
Mainstreaming
PSED = fostering good relations through dialogue
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Banner photo credits - slide 13, left to right :
Composite head of Vishnu (Vaikuntha) 11th century CE, Salonki
Michel, George (editor): In the Image of Man- The Indian Perception of the Universe Through 2000 Years of Painting and Sculpture. Hayward Gallery, 1982Flying female warriors 11th century CE, Chandela Michel, George (editor): In the Image of Man-
The Indian Perception of the Universe Through 2000 Years of Painting and Sculpture.
Hayward Gallery,
1982Ayagpatta Jain cosmic diagram, Mathura, 1st century CE, Kushan Red sandstone 89x 92 cm Michel, George (editor):
In the Image of Man- the Indian Perception of the Universe through 2000 Years of Painting and Sculpture
. Hayward Gallery,
1982
Mask head
Yoruba, Ife 12
th
- 15
th
century CE Copper 33 x 19 cm. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments,
Lagos
. Royal
Academy exhibition catalogue (1995
). Africa: the Art of a Continent
. London page
416
Ogboni
head
Terracotta, 18th - 19th century CE (?) Private collection, Brussels. H. 38 cm Royal Academy exhibition catalogue (1995
). Africa: the Art of a Continent
. London pages 416, 418.