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Title: EQUITY AT SCOTTISH SCHOOL: Lois Lurinsky

Reference number: 13709

Date: 2019

Director: d. Yushin Toda

Production company: Japan Desk Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.16 mins

Description: Lois Lurinsky, Acting 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
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda
cast Lois Lurinsky

Shotlist: Filmmaker's synopsis:

This is the second Japan Desk Scotland’s documentary on ‘Equality and Equity at Scottish School’, following ‘Equality and Equity at Scottish School - Andrew Robson’ (2017). As ‘Equity’ takes account of differences among children, it seems worthwhile listening to a different teacher on the same topic.

Lois Lurinsky is Acting Deputy Head Teacher at Hillhead Primary School, Glasgow. “Equality in education is about ‘One size fits all’. Everybody gets the same, the same level of support. But clearly that’s not the way people come to school. People come from unequal learning backgrounds and abilities, and unequal opportunities they had before they come to school. Equity is being fair, providing people what they need.” She talks about how the equity principle is delivered in a classroom.

The interview was carried out in December 2019 at Hillhead Primary School, Glasgow.