Summary
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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.
Equality
Equality
Aim
- To present ideological and political ideas that have influenced interpretations of the term ‘equality’.
- To encourage students and practitioners to reflect on how these ideas may have informed their own interpretation of equality.
- To explore the example of racism, and particularly institutional racism, in relation to equality.
- To discuss some implications for health and social care services and personnel.
Equality, along with liberty and fraternity, was one of the three watchwords of the French Revolution, and ever since the drive for equality has been behind movements for national, racial, sexual and class liberation (CEMS, 2006). The study of equality is complex because individuals, groups and communities have different interpretations, and so practical applications of the idea are likely to differ among those people and groups. Interpreters of the ...
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