As I said at the end of the session, most of the material on groups is covered on the site. The page with links to all the others is:
In relation to inclusivity and practice, the dominant liberal Western assumption is that you should not discriminate against people for anything they "can't help"*. In the jargon, that means their "basic roles": the link is to a page on Banton's venerable but still useful angle on this.
I've tried to address some of the underlying principles and issues here.
We talked briefly about different kinds of comunication in groups; I try to explore the content and process forms here. It's one of those ideas which is simple enough when you get it, but it's not easy to explain, so get back to me next week if it doesn't make sense.
We only touched on the weirder manifestations of the "group unconscious" (if it is a useful idea at all), but the way into it is introduced via group cultures here. Certainly it does help to account for some of the disproportionality of feeling which can be generated in groups, and the notion of projection, including the idea that "there's always one (whatever)" in every group or class. (Not yours, of course!)
I hope this gives you enough to be going on with, I'll deal with any matters arising at the start of the next session before we proceed to the first presentation.
* Of course, the educational system violates this all the time, because we assess people and fail them, even when they are trying their hardest... You could argue that this makes it all the more important to be as inclusive as possible in other respects.
Incidentally--in preparation for Unit 7, this page is a one-stop shop for all the recent reports and policy initiatives in FE.
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