All three Colleges was busy last week celebrating Diversity Week. We hope you had fun... we certainly did and here is what we got up to!
Around the world with your LRCs!
Guildford College LRC
79 Students attended two talks by Bob Thompson 'Developing Education in Africa: experiences of volunteering in South Sudan'
There was good feedback from the talks and the Foundation Degree Early Childhood Studies students hope to make a link with a school in South Sudan.
Farnham College LRC
54 students and staff contributed to the Why I love my Country Display! They covered 21 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Comments included:
- the fact that many nationalities live in harmony with each other (Malaysia and Nepal)
- “you can lay on a beach, diving in crystal clear sea water, enjoy the breeze on the mountain top, trek through a rain forest, or shop and party in the City of Malaysia”
- ”I love the sound of the traffic and how it is still bright at night from the lights of the billboards everywhere” (HK)
- “Vietnam is where saying “I love you” is impossible, according to the BBC, since we have more than 40 different pronouns to describe the relationships between individual and groups, based on ages and positions.”
- Nepalese students commented on the beauty of the mountains and fantastic food, but one said that a surprising thing was how there would suddenly be a strike and they would have a day’s holiday.
- UK students said they love their freedom of speech, free healthcare and education and several said they love our weather!
- One student was reading the descriptions on the board and realised there was a student in college from her home town in Zimbabwe – she is going to try to make contact...watch this space...
Merrist Wood College LRC
At MW LRC students participated in an Equality and Diversity Treasure Hunt Quiz.
We have also had lots of equality and diversity fiction being borrowed from our displays at all the LRCs if you are interested in borrowing some E&D resources here are our recommended reads and watches!
A selection
of Equality & Diversity Resources
available from your LRCs
Annabel by
Kathleen Winter
Fiction: about a young hermaphrodite (FC LRC: F WIN)
Britain’s Gay
Footballers (dvd) BBC 3
Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu,
the only ever openly gay British professional, goes on a mission to discover
why no gay player has followed in her uncle's boots in over twenty years. (MWLRC:
796.334 BBC)
Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Fiction: a murder mystery with the detective, and narrator, Christopher
Boone a fifteen year old with Asperger's Syndrome. (All LRCs F HAD)
Drawing Autism by
Jill Mullin.
A collection of inspirational artwork produced by people
with autism. (FC LRC: 709.04 MUL)
Equality and
Diversity in Policing by Brian Stout
(MW LRC: 363.2 STO)
Equality and
Diversity in the Lifelong Learning Sector 2nd ed. by Ann
Gravells
(GC & MW LRCs: 374.017 GRA)
Finding the Real Me:
True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity by Tracie O’Keefe
(FC & GC LRCs: 306.77 OKE)
Killing Honour by
Bali Rai
Fiction: about honour killings and violence towards women.
(All LRCs: F RAI)
Milk (dvd) starring
Sean Penn
Film: inspiring story of the first openly gay man to be
voted into major public office in America, Harvey Milk. (GC LRC: 791.437 MIL)
Noughts and Crosses Trilogy
by Malorie Blackman
Fiction: Against a background of prejudice, distrust and
violence a romance builds between, Sephy a cross and Callum a nought. One that
is to lead them into terrible danger… (MW LRC F BLA)
Silver Linings
Playbook by Matthew Quick
Fiction: A quirky comedy that brings two people with mental
health problems, Pat and Tiffany, together. (MW & GC LRC F QUI)
Skin Deep by
Laura Jarratt
Fiction: about Jenna who survives a car crash that kills her
best friend but leaves her permanently scarred. (GC LRC: F JAR)
Succeeding in College
with Asperger Syndrome: a student guide by John Harpur
(FC LRC: 371.90474 HAR)
Untouchable (dvd) starring
Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy
Film: a French comedy drama about the friendship between a
rich quadriplegic and his Senegalese carer.
(GC & FC LRCs: 791.437 UNT)
Zelah Green by
Vanessa Curtis
Fiction: Zelah calls herself a “cleanaholic” and through her
rituals has found a way to cope with the tragedy in her life. (FC LRC: F CUR)
