Summary
Contents
Subject index
This important textbook presents a distinctive holistic approach to developing anti-oppressive practice and demonstrates how an understanding of equality and diversity can affect interaction and intervention in a range of health and social care settings, and with a range of service users. Drawing on case studies and practice guidelines, the book proposes a range of strategies for students and professionals that will enable them to develop skills in cultural equality and anti-discrimination and apply them to their everyday practice.
Assessment and Evaluation
Assessment and Evaluation
Aim
- To present a series of questions that can be asked by a student or practitioner in an educational, health, social care or other human service setting, at three levels of anti-oppressive practice:
- The personal – our own knowledge and actions
- The organisational – the characteristics and performance of organisations
- The community-based and cultural – fostering anti-oppressive practice within communities and society.
- The organisational and community questions can also be used to evaluate the student or practitioner's own experience within those settings.
The Personal Level
Becoming Informed
We have argued that anti-oppressive practice is helped by becoming informed about people of particular identities – their history, beliefs, communal actions, writings, traditions, creative productions and so on – their ‘culture’. Researching the facts about a social group at risk ...
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