Diversity in the Psychology Curriculum: The Development of a Toolkit to Audit,Monitor and Enhance Responsiveness to Diversity in an Inclusive Curriculum
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Diversity in the Psychology Curriculum: The Development of a Toolkit to Audit,Monitor and Enhance Responsiveness to Diversity in an Inclusive Curriculum
The recent implementation of the UK Equality Act should guarantee that all students have equality of opportunity within higher education (HE), and that HE institutions are responsive towards diversity in its broadest sense. This report describes the development of a diversity toolkit for auditing and monitoring academic departments' responsiveness to diversity, with a particular focus on undergraduate psychology programmes. The toolkit was the culmination of a two-year action research project conducted within one school of psychology in the United Kingdom, which was partly funded by the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Departmental Teaching Enhancement Scheme.
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