UWS BA ePDPs – Page 243 – Personal Development Plans of BA(Hons) students of education

Inclusion and Equality

This week’s class was all about inclusion and equality, we looked at what inclusion and equality are, the three levels of inclusion, why inclusion and equality are important, the equality act (2010) and Allport’s scale of prejudice and discrimination. We also looked at a couple of the theorists who worked on the different aspects of inclusion and equality. I had a pretty god idea of what inclusion and equality are but I never realised all the aspects involved in Allport’s scale of prejudice and discrimination. Allport’s scale has five levels: antilocution, avoidance, discrimination, physical attack and extermination.

Antilocution – making jokes and insensitive remarks about another group; expressing opinions that reflect negative stereotypes and negative images based on preconceived judgements rather than facts; expressing hateful opinions about another group; name calling, ridiculing, verbal abuse and insults

Avoidance – actively ignoring specific individuals and groups; maintaining social distance, isolating, marginalising and excluding = Apartheid

Discrimination – denying equal access to opportunities, goods and services = Segregation in the USA

Physical attack – persecution, assault, vandalism and hate crimes = KKK

Extermination – genocide, ethnic cleansing = The Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide

Here is a visual representation of what inclusion and equality look like.

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Inclusion and Equality

Todays lecture was based around society and inclusion. Being an open-minded person I find this subject interesting. I an interested in learning more about how to promote diversity and inclusion within the classroom setting. I am also interested in learning … Continue reading →

Week 2 Society and Lifestyles

Religion, Culture & ‘Unchurched’ Spirituality Today’s lecture was an interesting one because we were exploring the idea of spirituality, and how it was different from religion. Spirituality is outside of the church, it arose when the idea of secularization began to infiltrate many countries. When I was doing my independent study, I looked deeper … Continue reading Week 2 Society and Lifestyles →

Religion, Culture & ‘Unchurched’ Spirituality

Today’s lecture was an interesting one because we were exploring the idea of spirituality, and how it was different from religion. Spirituality is outside of the church, it arose when the idea of secularization began to infiltrate many countries. When I was doing my independent study, I looked deeper into de-Christianisation (where Christian influences are removed from something). I found it interesting to find out that it was first happened during a French Revolution. It was where the people went against the priests and ministers as they were seen to be a part of the new government, and they massacred many of them, others fled to other countries to get away. This saw the closure of many churches within France, many of which never reopened. This caused many French people to abandon their faith, many of whom never got it back, resulting in France becoming a more secular county instead of a predominantly Christian one. I also found it interesting to look at the census during the lecture, as it said that 11% of people considered their religion to be Jedi Knight.

However, I found it confusing when we went to the tutorial, I found it challenging figuring out how to incorporate a theorist into the question we had to answer. I believe once I revise this topic that it will make more sense to me and then I can start to relate the knowledge I have learned to that of a theorist.

It has been interesting learning about religion and unchurched spirituality as they have an impact on our society. Popular religions are decreasing in size whereas spiritual groups are increasing. Spirituality, in our modern society, is seen as a form of religion that exists outside the normal religious institutions. In our society, religion is happening outside of the standard ‘churches’ and instead people are turning to spirituality. This does not mean that religion is disappearing, it’s just branching out into different aspects which suit the needs of our modern people.

Religion, Culture and Unchurched Spirituality

This weeks input dealt with Religion, Culture and Unchurched Spirituality, the influence they have on each other and on wider society. We also looked at the work of a number of theorists on the subject, each with varying attitudes and … Continue reading →

Society and Lifestyles – Week Two

From today’s lecture I have learned a lot more about religion and society that I didn’t already know. I have come to realise that the amount of people who would claim themselves to be religious has decreased significantly throughout the recent years . It was very interesting to learn about the views that different religions have, for example how Jehovah Witnesses refuse different medical procedures such as blood transfusions. I learned about the phrase ‘Unchurched spirituality’ which is a term I had never crossed paths with, before the lecture. I discovered that this can be associated with beliefs and rituals outside of a religion. Moreover, these people may believe in some aspects of religion or churches. They want to have a sense of individualism. When we split into the tutorials and in the independent study tasks I have gained more knowledge on theorists such as Karl Max, Max Weber and Bruce Lincoln. However, with all the knowledge we were taught in this lecture I do not fully understand every aspect of it and in particular the theorists views and therefore I will need to read up and research more about it to increase my understanding of it. This module is definitely opening my mind to all kinds of religions and their beliefs. I enjoy learning about it and find it very interesting.

Society and Lifestyles – Monday 23rd of January 2017

In Society and Lifestyles, I learned about how some religions split and changed and how religion has decreased over the years mainly in western Europe. This related to culture and many philosophers have different beliefs from this. We learned that a German philosopher called Max Weber believed in the 1800s and early 1900s that the … Continue reading “Society and Lifestyles – Monday 23rd of January 2017”

Religion, Culture, Unchurched Spirituality and Social Issues

Before this weeks lecture and tutorial, I was unaware of the vast impact that religion has on culture and I was especially interested to discover some specific cases of this controversial relationship. Max Weber’s belief that Christian Protestantism was a large contributing factor towards the rise of Capitalism in the West, suggested religion to encourage … Continue reading Religion, Culture, Unchurched Spirituality and Social Issues

Societies and lifestyles- week 2

This week, I learned a lot more about religion and society. Before the lecture and tutorial I had never heard of ‘Unchurched Spirituality’, but have since learned that the term means, spirituality that is not related to or follows an organised religion and usually does not follow the doctrines of a religion. In the tutorial and independent study tasks we also learned more about the theorists behind these views such as, Max Weber, Bruce Lincoln and Karl Marx. I feel that I still don’t fully understand the works of these theorists and so will have to research more about them in my own time to gain a bit more knowledge and insight into their work and contribution to religion and society. I also enjoyed learning about the different practices and beliefs of different branches of religions, such as Jehovas Witnesses and, i.e -refusing blood and also I found some of the clips we were shown in class intriguing, i.e- the video about the church who use snakes in their beliefs and practices. I was able to see the positive and negative aspects of this. For example, the dangers of certain practices but also the benefit to that religious community such as a sense of belonging.

I think that this module is helping me to understand further about religion and the diversity of religion in society today. I am beginning to realise that there are a lot more branches of religion that I knew of in the world and I think that this will help me when in the classroom because there will probably be a mix of cultures and religion within one class. I will have a better understanding of more cultures and not be more open minded towards a much vaster variety of religions and cultures.

Religion and Society – Part 2

The focus of this weeks lecture and tutorial was: How religion influences culture, how culture influences religion and ‘unchurched’ spirituality. For many people region and culture come hand in hand. They are part of that persons identity, they influence a … Continue reading →

Religion, Culture and ‘Unchurched’ Spirituality

In brief, from the lecture and tutorial the main thing I took away from it was how religion influences culture and vice-versa. It was interesting for me to see how two scholars can have such a polar opposite opinion from each other. Max Webber believed that religion was an agent of social change, in …

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