Browsing by Subject "prejudice"

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    Accounting for lack of interracial mixing amongst South African university students
    (SAGE, 2007) Finchilescu, Gillian; Tredoux, Colin; Mynhardt, Johan; Pillay, Jace; Muianga, Lucena
    The persistence of informal segregation in post-apartheid South Africa is now well documented. As the articles in this journal issue attest, this segregation is rife in many public spaces, including university campuses. This article explores the reasons to which students attribute the lack of interracial mixing at their institutions. Students from four universities were surveyed using an internet-based questionnaire. The final sample consisted of 1 068 black African and 1 521 white students. Their agreement or disagreement with eight reasons for avoidance of contact was analysed and found to vary as a function of race. The relationship of their responses to levels of prejudice and amount of interracial contact was examined.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - Listening to Children and Developing their Voice
    (2019-06-01) Bosch, Carol
    In this video, Deputy Director of Cape Mental Health Carol Bosch discusses the importance of listening to the voices of children with severe to profound mental disability. She discusses how these children (and adults with mental disabilities) face high levels of stigma and prejudice about their abilities, particularly when it comes to self-determination. She stresses the importance of stressing the right to self-determination and the right for children with mental disabilities to make meaningful choices about their own lives. She emphasises the importance of using augmented communication techniques to allow those who may not be verbal or who communicate in other ways to be able to advocate for themselves and evaluate the quality of support that they receive. Parents are a crucial agent in this process of allowing children with disabilities to promote their own agency, and Carol speaks of the importance of addressing existing attitudes and prejudices that parents of children with mental disabilities may have that prevent them from allowing their children their full rights as individuals and their ability to develop themselves to their full potential. She discusses the particular difficulty around sexual abuse and how the disempowering culture of silencing and ignoring children with disabilities contributes to their continued abuse.