Reducing Prejudice !!

... Reducing Prejudice !! There is two ways in which you can reduce prejudice within a society. These being social education and inter-group contact. The best way of social education is not through targeting attitudes at home but by enriching schools curriculum's to enable children to be exposed to other viewpoints. A school that used this technique was Verona High School, New Jersey, USA. They introduced a programme that provided sufficient opportunity to discuss equality issues, to understand equality diversity represents challenges and opportunities for individuals and society as a whole and to align the specific area of instruction with equality issues. A study was carried out by Aronson et al (1978) which was also classroom based. The researchers believed that if a school has a competitive nature this would not allow the children within it to like and understand other children. They argued that rather than compete children should learn

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