Racism & Diversity

Racism & Diversity

Introduction

Imagine if more than 6.5 billion inhabitants of the planet were equal. Would not be fun, right? Diversity is one of the greatest assets of human beings on the planet and the existence of different individuals in a city, a country, with their different cultures, ethnicities and generations make the world becomes more complete.

There are two main concepts which are widely used in the domain of Learning & Education. The two major approaches which sometimes becomes hindrance in continuing education for children are as follows:

Diversity

Racism

Diversity

The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance, held in Durban, expressed in its Declaration and Action Program: "Calls upon states to ensure equal access to education for all, law and practice, and to refrain from any legal action or other that lead to segregation racial imposed any form of access to education. .

Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10th December 1948, says that there should be in no time, discrimination based on race, color, gender, language, nationality, opinion or any other reason.

According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), the rate at which income inequality has been falling since 2001 is higher than that in the United States, England and Sweden. It is possible that extreme poverty and inequality are eliminated, but fundamental issues remain to be addressed, such as violence, child prostitution, slave labor and many other problems.

The protection and promotion of the rights of all human beings are articulated and put into practice with the help of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights (SEDH), the Presidency. To defend the rights of citizenship, children, adolescents, the elderly, minorities and persons with disabilities, inclusion programs are developed and put into practice the principles in statutes. So, walk up to ensure that the rich diversity of the population is preserved.

Diversity is one of the fundamental values of our century. Diversity is color, culture, wealth, trade, growth, needs and part of the history of every man. Often, however, these differences appear to be a reason of discontinuation in education for the foreign and other students.

In all educational institutions there is diversity and, unfortunately, the school is not prepared to accept and deal with these differences. In the current context, the educator who cannot form relationships, who feels unable to receive and accept the differences, keep in lethargy, the accommodation, making it one is indifferent to differences.

It is essential that the educator is open to working with different, you know I heard it, which is aware of its responsibility to the other, to treat you with respect, so that they - educator and students, to walk together where no human worlds completely ignorant nor human worlds that do not need to learn more, but yes, they are different and seek to learn more, evolving according to their abilities and experiences.

Contradictory as it may seem, make diversity a key teaching ...