Identity!
Online resources to use when teaching identity in secondary school:
^ This is actually a blog I found with a lot of different tasks to teach identity in school. It can be used in many different age-levels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIvmbFKIXvE
Levels of multicultural education.
This movie focuses on five levels of multicultural education:
1) Monocultural - one dominant culture is taught and is suprerior.
2) Tolerance - all students are trated equal.
3) Acceptance - The importance to acknowledge and accept others.
4) Diversity is a part of school and the curriculum.
5) Affirmation, solidarity and critique - a multilingual community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxDwQafAqU
How to infuce multicultural education in social studies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mttv_3RC1UQ
Quality in multicultural schools.
Reflect on these quotes:
Globalization at the cultural level has brought about the fragmentation and
multiplication of identities and this may require, paradoxically, a return to
the familiar. (Cohen et al.)
- Our
identity is constantly a negotiation with other people and our identity is
always looked at from others perspective. How we see ourselves is shaped and molded by the feedback we recieve from others (Mead).
- Life is a bunch of stories and you can create your own!
- Culture gives us a frame of references to understand who we are, which is an identity meaning function. Culture also satisfies our need for membership and belonging, which is the need of group inclusion. Culture shapes our attitude toward in- and out-group members.
World citizenship is to be
embraced, not feared. New forms of post-national understanding, responsibility,
the state, justice, art, science and public understanding can emerge. This in
turn can lead to more advanced forms of democracy, liberty and mutuality.
(Beck)
- Being a world citizen is a big responsibility and being a world citizen is something to be proud of. It shows that you are an open person and that you can accept a lot of different people, no matter what religion/culture/whatever they are a part of. Being a world citizen is an honor! You need to respect and accept that we are not all a like, but some of us are very close.
Today we have been working with identity and we had to make an identity-pie!
So here goes..
The identity-pie is useful in teaching when you are working with a class with much diversity. Then the student will find that they might not be as diverse as they think they are. It is actutally mind-blowing that we, as human beings, are so much a like.
The identity-pie is useful in teaching when you are working with a class with much diversity. Then the student will find that they might not be as diverse as they think they are. It is actutally mind-blowing that we, as human beings, are so much a like.
My identity-pie:
Dear Simone,
SvarSletThe teacher's blog you have found is really quite an interesting thing. She seems to be inspiring other teachers and has some nice suggestions.
You have described the pie chart and given some more quotes on globalization which are also useful. I agree that being a world citizen is a big - and necessary - responsibility to take on.
Could you please complete the description of the other class activities and find 4 more online resources?
Lilian
Of what other class activities? :)
SletI will try to find 4 more links later today.
Simone