Anti-Discriminatory Practice Teaching: What Should We Provide?
| Published date | 01 March 1994 |
| Date | 01 March 1994 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059404100102 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Anti-
Discriminatory
Practice
Teaching:
What
Should
We
Provide?
Hazel
Hemshall,
Senior
Probation
Officer
in
the
West
Midlands
and
Lecturer
in
Probation
at
Birmingham
University,
examines
CCETSW’s
requirements
of
anti-discriminatory
practice
and
asks
how
practice
placements
can
enable
students
to
meet
this
competence.
What
can
legitimately
be
expected
of
students
and
how
can
current
practice
teaching
in
anti-discrimination
be
enhanced?
The
new
Diploma
in
Social
Work
~!!L
gives
high
priority
to
anti-
discriminatory
practice,
stating
that
qualify-
ing
social
workers
(and
withm
that
term
pro-
bation
officers),
should
be
able
to:
’understand
and
counteract
the
impact
of
discrimination;
work
in
an
ethnically
sen-
sitive
way;
show
awareness
of
ways
to
combat
both
individual
and
institutional
racism
through
anti-racist
practice;
and
work
to
counteract
the
impact
of
discrimination
and
prejudice.’
para
2.4.4,
CCETSW
Paper
301
The
practice
placement
agencies
have
a
key
role
in
equipping
students
for
anti-
discriminatory
practice,
and
these
new
demands,
coupled
with
CCETSW
accredita-
tion,
provide
the
Probation
Service
with
an
opportunity
to
consider
what
is
now
re-
quired.
This
article
will
examine
five
key
issues
in
order
to
establish
those
re-
quirements.
They
are:
1.
The
provision
made
to
students
by
in-
dividual
practice
teachers,
what
is
provid-
ed,
and
what
should
be
provided.
2.
The
provision
made
by
the
agency,
not
only
in
terms
of
numbers
of
placements,
but
also
in
terms
of
quality
and
location.
3.
What
are
the
learning
opportunities
cur-
rently
provided
and
are
they
adequate?
Do
agencies
meet
the
expectations
of
students,
particularly
in
regard
to
anti-discriminatory
practice?
4.
The
use
of
competences
and
the
poten-
tial
for
discrimination
against
students
to
be
hidden
under
a
veneer
of
objectivity.
5.
The
position
of
those
students
vulnerable
to
discrimination.
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