3.4: Anti-bias role plays
In this activity students consider the impact of discrimination on the characters involved.
Tasks
- Copy and cut up the biased scenarios in Handout 8: Biased scenarios.
- Divide the class into small groups of three or four and distribute a scenario to each group.
- Ask
each group to act out the scenario depicted with, as far as possible,
each student playing a different character. Ask the groups to think
about how the character being discriminated against must feel.
- Ask each group to role play their scenario in front of the class.
- At
the end of each role play, ask the class to describe the type of
discrimination illustrated and to report on the impact of this
discrimination on the character(s) involved. Summarise responses on the
board or on butcher's paper.
- As a follow up to this
activity, students may be asked to devise strategies to deal with the
situations depicted in the scenarios. Groups may be asked to re-form
and re enact the scenarios incorporating their solutions for dealing
with prejudice.
- Alternative discrimination scenarios may be substituted in this activity where appropriate.
- Where this activity is conducted in isolation, more time should be devoted to identifying different types of discrimination.
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