Exercise 1: Are only my beliefs/values the right one ones?
Task 1: Who am I?
Duration: 30 minutes
The goal of the task: to make students aware of the diversity in the group and the different backgrounds.
Instruction for the teacher:
- Before starting the exercise, ask students which factors have been important in shaping their beliefs and values,
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Prepare 16 post-its for each pupil (see
worksheet_8.1.pdf). Each student should fill in the post-it cards using the template below. Then ask each person to choose only 3 cards,
- Ask students to share their choices with their classmates,
- Start a discussion on the diversity of our choices and its factors.
Task 2: Women’s veil in different regions of the world
Duration: 30 min
Teaching methods: brainstorming, individual work, film
The goals of this task are:
- to introduce students to the diversity of the female veil,
- to make students sensitive to the diversity of the female veil.
Instruction for the teacher:
- before beginning the activity, ask students what a woman’s veil is,
- write down all the students’ ideas on the board,
- watch the video “Why So Many Religions Have Headwear?”,
- introduce the peer educators to the class (presentation of the topic),
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ask students to write down the similarities and differences of the female veil in the world (see worksheet_8.2.pdf),
- group the ideas and begin a discussion on the universality of the female veil.
Watch the film: Danielle Bainbridge, Why Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?, Origin of Everything (PBS Digital Studios), 20.11.2018
