| CODE | IAL1025 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Diversity, Society and Inclusion | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Inclusion and Access to Learning | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit lays out different theoretical perspectives on social diversity and how these can be addressed. It engages the students in discussion on the multiple ways diversity and multiculturalism in societies are or can be addressed. Exclusion, assimilation, accommodation, integration, and politics of difference as multiculturalism are explored. This study-unit familiarises the students with the importance of recognition and acknowledgment of differences as these enhance belonging. The sense of belonging in a country is crucial amongst the concepts which cultural mediators are expected to discuss with their clients. Inclusion and hospitality in a democratic way of life will also be discussed. Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: - to help students engage critically with issues of diversity; - to support students in developing a praxes of inclusion based on democratic values of unity and diversity and the ethics of responsibility; - to encourage students explore the phenomenon of migration from a human rights perspective. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify different theories which address diversity; - examine these theories and identify practices that support them; - consider the impact these theories have on their prospective clients; - critically discuss these theories and propose alternative ways in which their clients' difference would be justly recognised and acknowledged. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - compare different praxes and ideals of engaging with diversity; - evaluate the implications of ideologies that lead to praxes of engagement with diversity; - apply different conceptions of inclusion for different narrative experiences; - compare and contrast different philosophies that engage with the multicultural question. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic courage. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. - Modood, T. (2013). Multiculturalism. Cambridge: Polity. Supplementary Readings: - Young, I. M., & Allen, D. S. (2017). Justice and the politics of difference. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Gravina Michael Grech Francois Mifsud (Co-ord.) |
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