4.3: What can I do?
This activity aims to provide students with opportunities to recognise prejudice and discrimination and to explore strategies to appropriately deal with it.
Tasks
- Read the three role plays From Handouts 20-22 to students.
Arrange students into groups and allocate a role play to each group.
Allow students time to read and become familiar with each text.
- Cast students in roles. Ask students to perform the role plays.
- Interview the performers in front of the class:
- What was the dilemma?
- What was the unfair behaviour?
- What did you decide to do?
- Do you think you behaved fairly?
- If not, how might you have behaved differently?
- Lead
a class discussion about prejudiced behaviour. Ask students to reflect
on situations in which they have observed people being hurt or
victimised or harassed.
- Why do you think this happened?
- What was your response?
- As
a class, draw conclusions about appropriate ways of dealing with unfair
or prejudiced behaviour. Create a chart on the board or on butcher’s
paper entitled “What can I do?” List students’ suggestions of things
they can do to counter prejudice and unfairness when they encounter
it., whether it’s directed at them or at someone else.
- This activity aims to provide students with opportunities to
recognise prejudice and discrimination and to explore strategies to
appropriately deal with it.
- Teachers should ensure that students who participated in the role plays are debriefed.
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