Valuing Diversity

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Introduction

This lesson focusses on diversity in the UK and how your students can celebrate it, rather than let it divide us.

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Valuing Diversity

Learning objective:

To learn about the impact of individual's beliefs and actions on community cohesion.

What do you already know about 'diversity'?

“We are far more united
and have far more
in common with each other than things that divide us”

- Helen Joanne Cox
 

Working with the person next to you, 

Do you agree with the message behind that quote? Why?

Media misrepresentation: What effect is 

this headline supposed to have on its readers?

Use this slide as an opportunity for your students to discuss this issue - refer to the PSHE teaching guidelines on the PSHE Association website if you are at all worried about keeping the discussion respecful.

What were the responses?

"Almost all flights from Romania to England are full – even though one airline doubled the number to meet demand – with one-way tickets selling for up to £3,000 each.

And all tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up.

Wizz Air, the low cost airline that serves Eastern Europe, has doubled the number of flights it is offering. However, because of the demand, even these no-frills flights are being sold at around £300 each...

All seats on two British Airways flights from Sofia to London Heathrow next Sunday and Monday – each carrying more than 152 passengers – have been sold."

Daily Mail - 31st December 2013

"a view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding" 

What are some of the ways we can correct our own misconceptions?

Most of the people that migrate here/immigrate here

do so to escape war?

A

True

B

False

Many people that come to the UK already have jobs lined up for them for when they get here...

A

True

B

False

People who come to the UK are unlikely to work, so the government has to spend most of their money to look after them.

A

True

B

False

People coming to the UK is a problem because they increase the risk of crime..

A

True

B

False

Using something from the news, and thinking about our quiz, do you think its fair that one persons actions should influence your view of a whole group of people? Why?

Is social media connected to the way we see migrants?

1

Yes

2

No

Are you confident you would know the truth about something from a social media post or video?

1

Yes

2

No

misconceptions or social opinion?

This lesson has given me something to think about..