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Title: EQUALITY AND EQUITY AT SCOTTISH SCHOOL: Andrew Robson

Reference number: 13698

Date: 2017

Director: d. Yushin Toda

Production company: japan desk scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.57 mins

Description: Andrew Robson, Deputy Head Teacher of Hillhead Primary School in Glasgow, explains how the Scottish education system is based on 'equity' for all pupils rather than 'equality'.

Credits: p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, japan desk scotland
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda

Shotlist: Filmmaker's synopsis:

‘Equity’ is the key concept for the current Scottish education policy. Andrew Robson, Deputy Head Teacher, Hillhead Primary School, Glasgow, scotland, explains this in relation to ‘equality’: “If everybody gets the same input, the same support, that would be equal. Equity is when we consider everybody’s needs. Equality for all doesn’t meet needs, whereas equity meets needs.” Behind addressing the importance of ‘equity’ at school seems to lie recognition that when the same delivery is made to children, not all children would be able to receive it due to children’s different learning styles, different backgrounds, and different capacity to learn. But, why is it important to meet every child’s needs?

“When children come to school, they learn. If you only pitched your teaching at those who coped, then there will be awful lots of children who, socially, would not cope. You would not be supporting them in moving into greater society. We deliver for the best possible outcomes for our children.”