Short Description
A 70+ page Factbook on Ethnicity and Disability. The aim of the Factbook is to provide a resource book and starting point for disability and generalist workers wanting to know more about the cultures and religions of their consumers and wanting to provide a better culturally more competent service.
More Details
There are three different sections in the Factbook:
Ethnicity & Disability gives you an overview of the issues, and aims to help you understand and further develop and strengthen your theoretical framework of working in a culturally diverse society.
Religions gives you a brief overview of the five main religions practiced in NSW. Under each religion you will find the numbers of people practicing, the origins and the sacred texts, the beliefs and practices, the different strands of each religion, as well as a discussion on some of the common myths held about each one of the religions.
Community Profiles gives an overview of nine communities in NSW. Each community profile is structured in the same way and you will find information on the people (basic statistics, the languages spoken, the different ethnic groupings, etc), some background (mostly political and economic information); the story of migration (how, why and when people from different communities arrived in Australia), some cultural aspects of community life and a discussion about attitude / s towards people with disability.
Author:
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Publisher: Multicultural Disability Advocacy Assoc of NSW
Publication PLace: Sydney
Edition No.: 1
Year: 2000
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