Health And Social Care Level 2 Unit 1 Promoting Equality And Diversity
NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity
Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
• When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
• Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Name: Caroline Steele
1. What is meant by diversity?
Diversity explains the many different and varied ways people can be different to one another. These differences may be gender, whether a person is male or female. Their ethnic group, for example their cultural beliefs, race, language, attitudes, values or physical characteristics. Their age, …show more content…
Describe what it means to respect people’s differences and why it is important to respect differences.
To respect people’s differences means to recognise that every person is different and has the right to be. This does not mean that you have to agree with their lifestyle choices or preferences; it just means you should be tolerant and accept that that’s who they are and how they live their lives. This helps them live a more peaceful life.
It is important to respect their differences as this helps to build better communities and helps everyone live more peacefully. Also if you are accepting of the differences in people they in turn are more likely to act the same and respect the differences in others. Many people try to find similarities in others and tend to not interact with people when they don’t find any similarities but if everyone respected peoples differences they would be able to build better relationships with people they wouldn’t usually think about building relationships
Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
• When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
• Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Name: Caroline Steele
1. What is meant by diversity?
Diversity explains the many different and varied ways people can be different to one another. These differences may be gender, whether a person is male or female. Their ethnic group, for example their cultural beliefs, race, language, attitudes, values or physical characteristics. Their age, …show more content…
Describe what it means to respect people’s differences and why it is important to respect differences.
To respect people’s differences means to recognise that every person is different and has the right to be. This does not mean that you have to agree with their lifestyle choices or preferences; it just means you should be tolerant and accept that that’s who they are and how they live their lives. This helps them live a more peaceful life.
It is important to respect their differences as this helps to build better communities and helps everyone live more peacefully. Also if you are accepting of the differences in people they in turn are more likely to act the same and respect the differences in others. Many people try to find similarities in others and tend to not interact with people when they don’t find any similarities but if everyone respected peoples differences they would be able to build better relationships with people they wouldn’t usually think about building relationships