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4.3 Equity and non- discrimination

History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Equality, equity and non-discrimination
  • Factors that promote equity and non-discrimination
  • Historical injustices that promote inequality and discrimination
  • Groups affected by discrimination in Kenya
  • Measures that promote equity and non-discrimination

What you will be able to do

  • analyse factors that promote equity and non-discrimination in the society
  • identify historical injustice in the society that promote inequality and discrimination
  • develop measures that promote equity and non-discrimination in the society
  • desire to promote equity and non-discrimination in the society

Key questions

“How can we eradicate inequality and discrimination in society?”

Lessons

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  1. Equity, non-discrimination, and the injustices behind inequality
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    What equity and non-discrimination mean, who is affected in Kenya, and the historical injustices that produced today's inequalities.
  2. Who is discriminated against in Kenya
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Six groups, the typical form the discrimination takes for each, and the single pattern underneath all of it.
  3. Disability: the barrier, not the person
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The social model, what reasonable accommodation means in practice, and why access is a right rather than a kindness.
  4. Gender equity
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Where the gap appears in school, land and voice, what the law already requires, and why none of it is caused by ability.
  5. Land, historical injustice and the record of redress
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How land injustice was made in five stages, what the TJRC found, and why an unremedied injustice is inherited.
  6. Ethnic discrimination and hate speech
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The five steps by which it escalates, what the law forbids, and what to do when you meet it online.
  7. Where to take a complaint
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Four routes for a discrimination complaint, what to bring, and why a right without a remedy is only a promise.
  8. What promotes equity, and what more can be done
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    The factors that advance equity and non-discrimination in Kenya, measures to strengthen them, and what a learner can do.