Equality+and+Difference

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Our second depth topic is Equality and Difference. You have been issued with a new workbook, the mauve book. We began by reading and listening to the speech by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in which he aplogised to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the nation. Questions on the speech are in the mauve book. The first week ended with the documentary __The Shame,__ a Four Corners program from 2001 by Liz Jackson. We are studying the problems of domestic violence and child sexual abuse in remote aboriginal communities. The class will also study educational disadvantage in remote communities and the complexities of justice and the indigenous communities.Our resources include the Liz Jackson documentary __The Shame__ and the report into child sexual abuse titled //Little Chidren Are Sacred//. The Four Corners documentary __Educating Kimberly__ (2008) provides information on education in remote communities. An internet site provides information on the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody. I have issued two important newspaper articles, //We need to get the children out of here// by John van Tiggelen and //The vanishing orphans of the intervention// by Yuko Narashima. These articles will help provide detailed information for your asssesment ask and exams.

__On the 17th August the class will sit for the final assessment task. It is valued at 30%. There is a detailed guide for this task on the table outside of room E109. The topic is Equality and Difference. You will need to know the information in the mauve booklets, the two documentaries on remote indigenous communities, The Shame and Educating Kimberly and the two newspaper articles We need to get the children out of here and Vanishing orphans of the intervention. You can choose either a structured essay or a continuous prose essay.__

Following the assessment task the class will expand the study of the topic Equality and Difference. The topic will expand beyond our focus group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. We will then learn relevant concepts and terms related to this depth study.The documentary __Blue Eyed__ featuring a social experiment in race relations in the USA helps us to understand the nature and impact of prejudice and discrimination.

We are also analysing in depth the five socially valued resources, **housing, health care, education, employment and the justice system**. To understand the importance of housing we will watch the documentary __Somebody Now__ (1996) by journalist David Goldie. This documentary is also helping us understand methodology. Goldie uses observation and interview in his longitudinal study on youth homelessness. To bring the research on homelessness up to date will watch a 2008 documentary on youth homelessness called __Oasis__ based on the youth refuge in Surry Hills, Sydney. The socially valued resource of housing will end with a class task based on the newspaper article by Adele Horin called __No place like home__ SMH 2004.

Handouts
1. [|The mauve workbook - part 1.pdf]

2. [|The mauve workbook - part 2.pdf]

Model essays
1. "Evaluate inequality in Australia by examining outcomes experienced by people. In your answer refer to age and culture." This essay can be downloaded by clicking on [|Equality and difference - model essay 1.docx]

2. "To what extent is inequality institutionalized in one society you have studied?" This essay can be downloaded by clicking on [|Equality and difference - model essay 2.docx]

3. There are two model essays. The first is "Discuss how attitudes of group members influence behaviour of other groups in one society." The second is a structured essay, covering commonality and difference, the consequences of inequality, and institutionalised inequality. These can downloaded by clicking on [|2010 Trial paper Equality and Difference model essays.docx]