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CULKAS, the Cultural Kaleidoscope is an European Grundtvig partnership. School years 12/13 and 13/14. http://www.culkas.eu/ This is an activity devised by CEA San Ildefonso-La Granja helped by the Salamanca University German Studies Department. It is a group activity to engage students in small group discussions with the final objective of reaching understanding of others´views and learning how to overcome stereotypes by the use of language and dialogue.
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Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
How to overcome stereotypes through using language and
dialogue
Cultural Kaleidoscope A Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project
CEA SAN ILDEFONSO-LA GRANJA
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
What are stereotypes?
• Thoughts or ideas currently accepted by a group or society and that present a immutable character.
Are they all true?
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Activity main goal:
How to overcome stereotypes by the use of language and dialogue.
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Structure of the activity / 1
• 10 minutes presentation
– What are stereotypes?– Are they all true? – Starter examples. Some well-known German
stereotypes and clichés (the following slides)
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Beer
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Punctuality
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Hard-working
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Good cars
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Sausages
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Germany
• Teamwork
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Structure of the activity / 2
• 10 minutes– 1 minute:
• Divide the class into 4 groups (one for each country).• Explain the activity.• Handout the post-its to each group.• Designate the spokesperson in each group.
– 9 minutes: Have the group write down the clichés or stereotypes.
• 3 minutes / 1 country (5 post-its)• 3 minutes / 1 country (5 post-its)• 3 minutes / 1 country (5 post-its)
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Structure of the activity / 3
• 20 minutes: Discuss and place the post-it. The spokesperson will come to the front and discuss whether they agree with the cliché. Then, s/he will place on top of the blackboard those post-its the group chooses as right.– 5 minutes Belgium– 5 minutes Denmark– 5 minutes Spain– 5 minutes Turkey
• 5 minutes final conclusion: language helps us to realize that not all the preconceived ideas we had about other countries or cultures are correct.
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Development of the activity / 1 • Talk about stereotypes and introduce the topic
we are going to work with (explanation and examples).
• Divide the group in 4 small groups (one for each country).
• Handout the post-its to the groups. There are post-its of four different colours and each colour represents a country. Each group will receive 15 post-its of three different colours (5 post-its for each country).
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Development of the activity / 2
• Have the groups write down in each post-it 5 different ideas/stereotypes about each of the other three countries. It could be words, short sentences or expressions.
• Collect and place post-its in the middle of the blackboard (having all the top of it free), so everyone can see them.
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Development of the activity / 3
• Discuss, group by group, if what is written down about its own country is true and explain why. This moment of the activity is really important because this is what all is about: discussion and dialogue among people from different nationalities that seek to overcome the stereotypes using language as their main tool. For discussing and placing the post-its, each group’s spokesperson goes to the blackboard and moves the post-its they choose (with his/her group’s help).
• At the end, some pictures of the final result will be taken.
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
MATERIALS
• Different colour post-its
• Black feltips
• Normal (and big) blackboard / whiteboard
• Camera (for final pictures)
Changing Stereotypes Across Language
End result. • Fruitful discussions and a real picture of the
stereotypes each country agrees with and those that are just that, stereotypes.
• The experience of participants is vital for this activity/workshop.
• To engage people in small group discussions on given topics and sharing the conclusions is something we have learned from previous activities carried out by the Danish team in previous meetings.
Changing Stereotypes Across Language