Diversity in Childcare
Unit 6: Promoting Children’s Rights
P1- Describe the meaning of diversity in today’s society
Diversity means to take into account and celebrate everyone’s differences. Each person is an individual and that should be honoured. Everyone looks different, has different views and opinions and is part of a different culture and religion. No two people are the same. This may need to be taken into consideration sometimes but everyone should always be treated the same, have equal opportunities. Everyone should be treated fairly.
‘People are only as different as we make them out to be. We choose which characteristics we want to highlight mostly based on what we’re comfortable with. If we wanted to, we could begin celebrating every quality the people who surround us possess and increase our access to their amazing talents and abilities immediately.’ (Self-Awareness Workshops, 2011)
This quote suggests that a person’s differences are in the view of the beholder. Discrimination is about a person believing they are superior and right while the other person is interior to them and wrong. This could be based on many things; Opinions and view, religion, age, gender, culture etc. But different people believe in different things and have different, sometimes conflicting opinions. Diversity is about accepting and embracing everyone’s differences rather than discriminating against someone for them. ‘Individual and group diversity needs to be considered in order to ensure that everybody‘s needs and requirements are understood and responded to within employment practice and service design and delivery’ (Self-Awareness Workshops, 2011)
An example of diversity in practice; ‘The development of flexibility in working practices and services. An employer may allow an employee to work a flexible working pattern to accommodate child care arrangements, or a GP surgery may offer surgeries at the weekends to accommodate those who work full time during the week……These approaches recognise
P1- Describe the meaning of diversity in today’s society
Diversity means to take into account and celebrate everyone’s differences. Each person is an individual and that should be honoured. Everyone looks different, has different views and opinions and is part of a different culture and religion. No two people are the same. This may need to be taken into consideration sometimes but everyone should always be treated the same, have equal opportunities. Everyone should be treated fairly.
‘People are only as different as we make them out to be. We choose which characteristics we want to highlight mostly based on what we’re comfortable with. If we wanted to, we could begin celebrating every quality the people who surround us possess and increase our access to their amazing talents and abilities immediately.’ (Self-Awareness Workshops, 2011)
This quote suggests that a person’s differences are in the view of the beholder. Discrimination is about a person believing they are superior and right while the other person is interior to them and wrong. This could be based on many things; Opinions and view, religion, age, gender, culture etc. But different people believe in different things and have different, sometimes conflicting opinions. Diversity is about accepting and embracing everyone’s differences rather than discriminating against someone for them. ‘Individual and group diversity needs to be considered in order to ensure that everybody‘s needs and requirements are understood and responded to within employment practice and service design and delivery’ (Self-Awareness Workshops, 2011)
An example of diversity in practice; ‘The development of flexibility in working practices and services. An employer may allow an employee to work a flexible working pattern to accommodate child care arrangements, or a GP surgery may offer surgeries at the weekends to accommodate those who work full time during the week……These approaches recognise