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Intercultural Awareness
Challenging Stereotypes
Task
Outline
- Teacher & students complete sentence
starters (All/Most/Some/A few Irish/
Italian/ Spanish, Polish, German
people……..) on a slip of paper
anonymously. The statements should
relate to knowledge, attitudes, values,
culture of target country/ies & Ireland.
- Statements could also include
reference to the themes covered in the
module - sport, food, pastimes etc.
- All of the statements are put into a hat
and drawn out & read aloud one by
one.
- Students can express their opinions by
completing a walking debate / a
skipping rope activity / mini
whiteboards (see right hand column
for explanation).
- The statements and discussion that
ensues should draw out students’
thoughts of how they view Ireland &
other countries.
- This activity could be done at the
beginning of the module and revisited
throughout the module to challenge
what they initially thought.
- Teachers can use the list of stereotype
statements (resources) if necessary.
- Walking debate
teacher puts posters stating ‘Agree/
Disagree/ I don’t know’ in three different
places in the classroom. On hearing the
statement, students walk to the poster
which most represents their opinion. A
discussion takes place about the
statement and students may change their
mind and move position, if required.
- Skipping rope activity
An area is cleared in the classroom and
the teacher places a long skipping rope
here. Teacher puts ‘Agree’ and ‘Disagree’
signs at either end of the skipping rope.
On hearing the statement, students go to
the end of the skipping rope which most
represents their opinion. In this activity
students can choose to stand at different
points of the rope depending on how
much they agree/disagree with the
statement. After discussing the students’
viewpoints about the statement, students
are allowed to change their position on
the skipping rope.
- Mini whiteboards activity
On hearing the statement, students write
‘agree/ disagree/ or I don’t know’ on the
mini whiteboard. They share their answers
with their classmates and discuss their
thoughts.
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