3.5: Discrimination
In this activity students identify members of our society who are discriminated against and explore the bases for that discrimination.
Tasks
- Introduce this activity by explaining that prejudiced behaviour against people is called discrimination.
- Ask students to identify all the people they can think of who are discriminated against in our society. The students should be able to generate a list that includes people from various cultural backgrounds, people with disabilities, poor people, women, old people, people who don't speak English, people who wear distinctive kinds of dress. You may have to help the class to see that fat or skinny people, very tall or short people and people from certain parts of the country are also sometimes discriminated against. Using Handout 15: Types of discrimination as a model, create a column called "Types of people" on the board or on butcher's paper. In this column list of all the different types of people that are discriminated against according to the class.
- Add a column next to the first called "Basis of discrimination" as modelled in the handout. In pairs, ask students to come up with the bases or reasons for discrimination against the different types of people listed in column 1 such as language, race, sex or age. Record the bases in column 2 on the butcher's paper or board.
- Review both columns and discuss with the class the possible effects that discrimination could have on different types of people.
- Where this activity is conducted after the activity Black like Kyra, white like me, you may choose to highlight examples of prejudiced behaviour presented in the text.
- Teachers should keep a record of the types of people and bases for discrimination identified by the class. A follow up to this activity is contained in the next section.
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