Equal
Opportunities
Equal
Opportunities policy will conform to the whole school policy on Equal
Opportunities.
The
History department aims to provide the best education available within the
resources available, regardless of race, ability or cultural background. Our aim
is to promote and encourage equal opportunities for all pupils, not only in
subject choice and career outcomes within a whole school policy, but also in the
ways pupils think and feel about themselves.
Equal
opportunities is concerned with both equal access to the opportunities provided
within history and with enabling students to have access according to individual
needs . No activity will be barred to students on the basis of social class,
ethnic origin, mental or physical ability.
Staff
will ensure good practice in order to
·
create a learning
environment that is friendly to all pupils.
·
Ensure displays and
teaching materials do not contain gender bias or racial, religious,
stereotyping.
·
Ensure equality of praise.
Reprimand or sanctions.
·
Raise the awareness of
equal opportunities issues
·
Ensure equal participation
of all pupils
Many
events in the past were recorded in terms of the ‘heroic’ deeds of men in
battle etc. while both records and text books fail to report adequately the role
of women, so giving an unbalanced picture of the past.
History
shows that social arrangements need not and will not always remain as they are.
It also shows that certain groups have been treated more or less favourably in
some societies than in others.
The
Department will give careful thought to differences in the historical roles of
men and women, and draw attention to them wherever it is appropriate. Some of
the programmes of study contain issues that affected men and women in different
ways.
It is recommended that, whatever weight is given to gender, it should be treated broadly, as one among many ways in which societies define and divide people. It is helpful to consider the implications of historical events for both men and women and to avoid token lip-service to the History of women.