Duration: 1 hour and 30 min
Learning Outcomes:
1.3.4 Be able to interpret how cultural awareness and expression may affect some elements of you and your friends and family’s lives.
Process
- Give each participant a piece of A4 paper and two pens (a blue and a red) and ask them to divide the paper into 4 equal boxes.
- Explain that the next part of the activity can be done in private and does not need to be shared.
- Ask participants to write with the blue pen in each box an aspect of their identity directly related with their culture that is most important to them.
- Ask participants to write under each sentence of each box, with the red pen, three ways of how this part of culture may affect some elements of their own and their friends and family’s lives and how cultural awareness and expression is connected with this influence. (e.g religion as a part of someone’s identity – being Muslim: 1. In Ramadan me and my family do not eat before sunset. 2. My female family members dress always modestly. 3 During the day we stop whatever we are doing in order to pray in particular times of day).
- Develop a group discussion among the participants on all sentences written in red. How others perceive these statements? Can everyone relate these statements with the element of culture that corresponds to them?
- Give an overall example at the beginning of the exercise to give participants a deeper understanding of the exercise.
Annexes:
No
Video and other useful links:
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