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TITLE OF PRODUCT:

Awareness and deconstruction of prejudices
(Prise de conscience et déconstruction des préjugés)

NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Marie-Noëlle LELOUP – educational psychologist and teacher cultural diversity education in a higher school

PLACE AND DATE OG PUBBLICATION:

Non-profit-making organization Grappa, Verviers (Belgium) – September 2008

TYPE OF PRODUCT:

Other

LANGUAGE/S OF PRODUCT:

French

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

This activity consists in distributing lemons to the pupils, and in asking them the characteristics of these lemons. This stage requires a general classificatory reasoning.
Then, the pupils are divided into groups and they are given one lemon per group that they are led to analyze.
After two minutes of observation, the activity leader takes back the pieces of fruit and mixes them. He puts them on a desk and the children have to find « their lemon » again.
They realize that they easily recognize their piece of fruit thanks to one particular characteristic or the other.
The following stage consists in both pooling and reflection: the activity leader reminds the children of the characteristics they talked about in the beginning, those that consist in giving the identical features that lemons have (yellow, gritty, with a particular smell, etc.). He asks them then why, if these pieces of fruit have identical characteristics, they have succeeded in distinguishing and recognizing them. The activity leader asks the children then to transpose the activity, and to find a link between the latter and the way in which people tend to « generalize » when they find themselves in front of a person of foreign origin. By approaching the people, by knowing them better, you can realize that they are not necessarily as we had judged them.
He underlines that classification is a natural stage in many fields, but that at human level, there is no reason to generalize, to categorize.
The activity leader proposes then to integrate another piece of fruit into the group created by the lemons.
The children decide whether or not to « accept » this piece of fruit. They are led to explain the reason of their choice.
We can conclude then that in spite of the differences between the lemons, they have united to make the decision whether to integrate or not another piece of fruit.
We can also add a vegetable and other elements. The lemons and the piece of fruit will find then the thing in common « fruit » to decide whether the vegetable is accepted ...
This means that the things in common are present as well as the differences, and that they can be exploited.

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Non-profit-making organization Grappa

ROLE:

Activity leader



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