VIDEOS

GENDER EQUALITY

Watch EMMA WATSON 's spech at UN and answer the questions below.

1. What is femininsm?

2. Why are women choosing not to identify as feminist?

3. What is the biggest cause of death in the UK for men at a certain age?

4. What is HeForShe about?

5. If things continue the same, when will women in the African countryside have secondary education?

6. After watching the speech, what is that Emma wants?

THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH

COOKING WITH CHARLIE

Amy Cuddy:  Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Chimamanda Adichie:  The Danger of a Single Story

Write down first impressions (1-3 words) based on the following words: Male, Female, Local, Foreigner, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Young, Old, Ugly, Beautiful, Disabled, Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, Foreign Domestic Worker, Construction Worker, Sex Worker. 

Follow up with a discussion on stereotypes if students’ responses reveal many stereotypes: What are stereotypes? Are stereotypes harmful? Why? Why do stereotypes exist?

Discussion – On Stories and Perceptions

Based on Section 1 of the video (from 00:00 to 07:35)

• How is your perception influenced by the world around you? (ie. What stories are you told in books, movies, pictures, music, the news, or by friends and family?)

• Chimamanda Adichie speaks of “how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children”. What stories did you grow up reading/listening to? Could you identify with the characters in these stories? Why? Why not? Did these stories influence your perception of the world?

• Consider how “our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories”. What do you think this means?

  
  

  Group Discussion

  
  

  Based on Section 2 of the video (from 07:35 to end)

  
  

  • What role does the media play in perpetuating or challenging stereotypes?

  • Discuss the ways family background, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, age, socio-economic status and other group and cultural influences contribute to the development of one’s perceptions.

  • “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” – Chimamanda Adichie

    
    

    Further Discussion: Case study – Looking at the Context of Spain

    
    

    • Are there any ‘single stories’ in our local media?

    • If so, how do these stories entrench harmful societal attitudes and stereotypes about class, race, gender, wealth etc?

    • How can we help to reduce harmful stereotypes? How can such ‘single stories’ can be challenged?