Pluralism and Social Policy in the UK
The whys and wherefores of CASAS Roger Ballard |
Delivered at CASAS inaugural workshop, this presentation sets out the agenda which we originally set for ourselves, and most particularly the need for enhanced levels of ethnosensitivity and cultural competence amongst those responsible for providing professional services if members of ethnic minorities are to gain equitable access to public services |
The Academy’s Response of the to the Growing Salience of Ethnic Plurality Roger Ballard |
Delivered at the Centrex for Learning and Teaching Conference on The Dynamics of Change in Higher Education held in Birmingham on 3rd -4th April 2003, this paper discusses the extent to which Britain's Higher Educational System has amended its curriculum in the light of the growing salience of racial and ethnic plurality in British Society. Using McPherson's conception of Institutional Racism as a yardstick, it considers how far the HE system as currently organized serves the contemporary needs of British society in general, and minority students in particular. |
Community or communities? Whither public policy in the context of an increasingly plural society? Roger Ballard |
A contribution to the CASAS inaugural Conference on March 18th 2002, this presentation explores the extent to which the growth of South Asian communities in the past half century has sharply increased the extent of ethnic plurality in most of britain's industrial cities, and suggests the changes thus wrought are large irreversible. On that basis it explores how far public policy has yet come to terms with these developments. with these developments |
A Report from the Coalface: the trials and tribulations of developing ethno-sensitive practice Tahirah Parveen |
A contribution to the CASAS inaugural Conference on March 18th 2002, this presentation reflects of the challenges which those engaged in developing and delivering more relevant and effective forms of service delivery in ethnosensitive contexts can expect to encounter whilst doing so. |
Abiding by the law in a plural society Roger Ballard |
This contribution to the CASAS inaugural Conference on March 18th 2002 takes off from the theme 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do'. Having acknowledged that all societies need a core of shared conventions if social order is top be sustained, this presentation argues that a zealous application of that view in the context of a plural society inevitably leads to inequity and injustice. |