Promoting Equality and Diversity in Education

Equality and Diversity

TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
A: Identify and explain the 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity.................................3
B: Define diversity............................................................................................................................4
C: Why is it important to promote equality and diversity..................................................................4
D: Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity...........................................................5
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
A What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning.....................................5
B Review the impact of different abilities on learning.......................................................................6
C What are the barriers to equality and diversity? How are they relevant to your practices?............7
D Suggest what can be done to remove these barriers in your Gilon Instiute of Higher Education,
London..............................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
A: Summarise the policy and regulatory frameworks relating to equality and diversity and inclusive
practice..............................................................................................................................................8
B: What are the influences of the above on your Gilon Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal
policies and own practice (at least 3 points from each paragraph)?...................................................9
C: Explain how working with other agencies can promote diversity...............................................10
D: Reflect on how the promotion of equality and diversity can protect learners from risk of harm.11
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................11
A: Why is it important to promote an inclusive learning environment (Benefits?)..........................11
B: Summarise your own role and responsibilities in promoting inclusion, equality and diversity...12
C: Analyse ways to promote inclusion............................................................................................13
D: Explain actions that can be taken to value individual learners and explain good practice in
providing individual learners with information...............................................................................13
TASK 5...............................................................................................................................................14
A: Explain the relationship between own role and the roles of other professionals involved in
inclusive practice.............................................................................................................................14
B: Identify the points of referral available to meet the individual needs of your learners................14
C: What are the strategies that you use to liaise with the professionals involved?...........................15
TASK 6...............................................................................................................................................15
A. Demonstrate how you promote equality and diversity through a Lesson Plan............................15
B. Define Gilon Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal culture.....................................................16
C. Give examples of how your own behaviours impacted negatively and positively on your Gilon
Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal culture...............................................................................17
TASK 7...............................................................................................................................................17
Review the effectiveness of own inclusive practice and promotion of equality and diversity.........17
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................19

TASK 1
A: Identify and explain the 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity
Equality means the state of being equal as it is one of the ideal democratic society as well
as so individuals are fighting for gaining different type of equality such as racial, gender and
many more (Machin and et. al., 2020). On the other hand, diversity means understanding that
every individual is unique as well as recognizing individual differences.
 Age – This Act protect people of all age as different treatment because of age is not
unlawful or indirect discrimination if individual can justify it (Palacios, 2016).
Education is right of every individual person so it is important for educational
institution to select candidates without creating any age discrimination.
 Gender – Both men and women has to be treated equally no discrimination has to be
done in them. Unequally on the basis of equality act. Thus, both men and women have
right to be educate so it is essential for educational institution to ensure that
educational institution should have to educate student without creating and gender
discrimination.
 Disability – There are several disable people who should not be discriminate in
educational institution as they also have right to get educated (Standish, 2019).
 Gender reassignment – The Act protect transsexual people, they are the one who
proposes to start or complete procedure of changing their gender.
 Pregnancy and maternity – It protect the women who discriminated on the ground of
maternity and pregnancy as well as any statutory leave which she entitled during
entire period.
 Race – For the purpose of the Act “race” involves nationality, colour as well as
national or ethnic origins (Brewis, 2019).
 Religion - In the Equality Act, religion includes any religion. It also includes no
religion, in other words employees or jobseekers are protected if they do not follow a
certain religion or have no religion at all.
 Sexual orientation – Equality Act protect bisexual, lesbian, heterosexual as well as
gay.
 Marriage and Civil partnership – The Act protects staff who are married as well as in
civil partnership in relation of discrimination. But single people are not protected in
this.

B: Define diversity
Diversity means understanding that every individual is unique as well as recognizing
individual differences (Bowl, 2018). There are several things which has to be consider in
diversity are as follows :-
 Opportunity in employment and progression – Every educational institution such
Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London have to hire diverse workforce which is
important along with this it help in dealing with client from different country in
effective manner and also accomplishing goals and objectives.
 Range of students and learning need – There are several students in single
classroom who are diverse from each other on several basis such as religion, race and
many more. In that situation it is important for teacher to conduct session in such
manner that everyone can understand.
 Social inequalities – It is also major point which has to be covered in diversity
because there are several people who create differences because of social inequalities
among each other.
C: Why is it important to promote equality and diversity
Equality and diversity is considered as practices in which every employee get equal
chance at the workplace (Lahelma and Tainio, 2019). There are several benefits of equality
and diversity which a company may gain, from which some are mentioned below:-
 Richness of social mix – Equality and diversity helps a Gilon Institute of Higher
Education, London in adopting social mix through which they can adopt new ideas or
technology from different areas or location (Abankina and et. al., 2016). It will also
help in development of richness of social mix which motivates employees.
 Multi culture society – Through equality and diversity multi culture society will
promote which enhance moral of staff at the workplace as well as it also enhance their
work performance.
 Opportunity for progression – Equality and diversity also help in gaining
opportunities for the progression because it motivates an employee which leads to
growth of workplace.
 Promoting best practices – Equality and diversity help in promoting best practices at
the workplace because through it employees get equal change which motivate as well
as encourage them.

 Mutual support – While a Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London adopt
equality and diversity at their workplace they leads to feeling of mutual support which
motivate as well as encourage employees to perform properly and effectively.
D: Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity
There are several ways which a company must adopt in order to promoting equality
and diversity at their workplace. From which some are mentioned below:-
 Creating opportunity for sharing – Equality and diversity will be promoted through
developing equal opportunity for very person so that they can feel equal as well as
important (Özbilgin and Slutskaya, 2017).
 Celebrate diversity – For a educational institution it is also essential that they must
celebrate each and every festival which is of all religion because through that they
able to promote equality and diversity at the workplace successfully and effectively.
 Positive attitude to individual – For promoting equality and diversity a company
must motivate positive attitude among the staffs or individual because they will feel
encouraged which enhance their productivity.
 Empowering individuals – It is also essential for firm to empower employees and
individual so that they can promote equality and diversity effectively (Thompson,
2016). This is so because through it they able to empower individual.
These are main ways through which a company as well as society can promote
equality and diversity as well as it will also help them in motivating and enhancing their
performance.
TASK 2
A What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning
There are several factors which affect learning such as development of language,
educational background and social or cultural barriers. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Development of language - When individual is from different nation then they have
distinct language which may sometimes work as barriers while learning (Loredo and
Merritt, 2019). Because it will create difficulties as differences in language may result
in creating issues as particular person nit able to learn things in better manner.
 Educational background – For learning something in better manner it is important
for individual to have minimum education which required for learning. Because