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Unread 01-28-2014, 10:19 PM
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Analyse the impact of prejudice and discrimination on children and young people

Even though many attitudes have changed over the years we still live in a society that holds bigoted and prejudiced views. This bigotry can be racial, religious, ethnic or based on a person’s disability. Because of increased media coverage generally, children are exposed to many different cultures and events happening currently in these countries and so their opinions are formed about people from these countries. As a result of this it becomes ever more important to teach our children to learn and value diversity. If children are subjected to prejudice, it forces them into a state of emotional and social tension resulting in lack of self-esteem, self confidence, feeling as though they are not accepted and totally unworthy. Children who lack confidence and cannot participate in activities with others are more likely to be unable to develop and maintain positive relationships with others. As a result their schoolwork suffers, they may become withdrawn and depressed. Prejudice and bigotry are learned at a very young age mainly from parents, other children and other institutions outside of the home environment. In many instances when children are trying to understand why others are different to themselves they may take on board what others say about them even though it may wrong. This in turn gives children a total misconception of what they are experiencing when they create their views and opinions. This then creates intolerance.
Types of prejudice and discrimination include:
• Racism
• Sexism
• Religious prejudice
• Culture
• Ageism
• Ethnicity
• Socioeconomic status
• Disabilities – physical and mental

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Evaluate how own attitudes; values and behaviour could impact on work with children and young people

All of us have attitudes and values inbuilt into us over many years of life and up until such a time as we start to work with children or in other similar walks of life it isn’t always necessary to be too aware of them. The people that most of us deal on a day-to-day basis with have as much-inbuilt attitude and values as ourselves. When it comes to children they are influenced by our behaviour and the way we come across, it is now that we need to be much more self aware of how we do come across as this will impact on the relationships that we have with the children in our care and the staff around us. If we display negative behaviour and a negative way of dealing with certain people or incidents involving others of perhaps a different race or religion then we unwittingly influence other younger children to behave in the same way. It is our duty to encourage pupils to respect and accept others and the only way to do this is to examine our own beliefs and attitudes and learn not to make judgments on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity or religion.

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