Discussing Inequality: Materials for the classroom and beyond

讨论不平等：课堂内外的材料

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J010731/1
负责人：
Kate Pickett
金额：
$ 12.73万
依托单位：
University of York
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ010731%2F1
关键词：
Discussing Inequality Materials classroom beyond

项目摘要

The best-selling book The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone (Wilkinson & Pickett, Penguin 2009), brought together several decades of research, to which a great many people contributed, covering the health and social effects of income inequality on societies. It suggests that societies with bigger income differences between rich and poor suffer more of most of the problems which, within societies, have social gradients making them more common at the bottom of the social ladder.The Equality Trust is a politically independent, not-for-profit company that aims to make the evidence on the impact of larger and smaller income inequalities more widely known. The proposed project is a collaboration between the academic authors of The Spirit Level and The Equality Trust, which aims to collect together research evidence on the impact of inequality and make it relevant, interesting, accessible and compelling to young people in secondary education and to produce short factual summaries of research which will be provided free of charge for interested people and organisations across society including politicians, civil servants, business leaders, trade unions and charities. The materials will be developed by a working group including Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, The Equality Trust, teachers from Stantonbury Campus and other schools, representatives from educational charities including ASDAN, youth workers and young people themselves.The project will: Produce teaching packs for different curriculum subjects and age groupsThe evidence relating to income inequality fits clearly with a number of different subjects in the national curriculum, particularly in social sciences and statistics. We will take advantage of this synergy by developing template lesson plans for the most relevant subjects, adapted for different age groups. The materials will be developed with creative input and critical feedback from young people and will include clearly understood, eye-catching visual representations of the data and interactive games or other activities. The resources will be provided to teachers free of charge; electronic versions will be available to download online and printed copies will be available from The Equality Trust.Produce a 30 minute filmAs part of their performing arts course, 16-19 year old students at Stantonbury College will write, produce and appear in a 30 minute film about the impact of inequality on their lives. This film will then be produced as a DVD, which will be widely distributed free of charge with supporting materials. Produce a series of Research Summaries and Research Updates The Research Digests will provide summaries of particular areas of research, such as the relationship between inequality and crime, or between inequality and economic growth. The Research Updates, with a format rather like a press release, will draw attention to individual pieces of research related to inequality - whether on recent trends, or on topics related to mechanisms through which inequality could affect social, economic or environmental outcomes. These will be distributed to politicians, trade unions, industrialists, local councillors, charities, media correspondents and via electronic media. Members of the public will be encouraged to use the research evidence.

畅销书《精神层面：为什么平等对每个人都更好》（Wilkinson & Pickett，Penguin 2009）汇集了数十年的研究成果，许多人对此做出了贡献，涵盖了收入不平等对社会的健康和社会影响。它表明，富人和穷人之间收入差距较大的社会遭受的大多数问题更多，这些问题在社会内部具有社会梯度，使其更常见于社会阶梯的底层。 - 盈利公司，旨在让有关较大和较小收入不平等影响的证据更加广为人知。拟议的项目是 The Spirit Level 和 The Equality Trust 的学术作者之间的合作，旨在收集有关不平等影响的研究证据，使其与中等教育中的年轻人相关、有趣、易于理解和引人注目，并产生研究的简短事实摘要将免费提供给社会上感兴趣的人和组织，包括政治家、公务员、商界领袖、工会和慈善机构。这些材料将由凯特·皮克特教授和理查德·威尔金森教授、平等信托基金、斯坦顿伯里校区和其他学校的教师、包括 ASDAN 在内的教育慈善机构的代表、青年工作者和年轻人本身组成的工作组开发。该项目将：制作教学包针对不同课程科目和年龄组与收入不平等有关的证据显然与国家课程中的许多不同科目相符，特别是在社会科学和统计学方面。我们将利用这种协同作用，为最相关的科目制定适合不同年龄段的模板课程计划。这些材料将根据年轻人的创意输入和批评性反馈来开发，并将包括清晰易懂、引人注目的数据视觉表示和互动游戏或其他活动。资源将免费提供给教师；电子版可在线下载，印刷版可从平等信托基金获得。制作一部 30 分钟的电影作为表演艺术课程的一部分，斯坦顿伯里学院 16 至 19 岁的学生将在 30 分钟内写作、制作和表演关于不平等对他们生活的影响的电影。该影片随后将被制作成DVD，并连同辅助材料免费广泛发行。撰写一系列研究摘要和研究更新研究文摘将提供特定研究领域的摘要，例如不平等与犯罪之间的关系，或不平等与经济增长之间的关系。研究更新的形式类似于新闻稿，将引起人们对与不平等相关的个别研究的关注——无论是关于最近的趋势，还是与不平等可能影响社会、经济或环境结果的机制相关的主题。这些信息将通过电子媒体分发给政治家、工会、实业家、地方议员、慈善机构、媒体记者。将鼓励公众使用研究证据。