Tool "Stereowhat?"

Language: English

Project Featuring This Tool: Rainbow Resources

Themes:Inclusion and Equality

The participants reflect on stereotypes of girls and boys through creating their own TV commercials.

Time 60 minutes
Approximate number of participants 4-20
Age not relevant, under 10
Date published 9 Dec 2011, 12:17

Objectives

To introduce the concept of a stereotype

To raise awareness of our own stereotypes

To develop ideas on how to resist stereotyping and how to fight stereotypes

Materials

Clothes for dressing up (optional)
Flipchart paper and markers

Step-by-step instructions

1. Divide the group into small groups of only boys or girls (ca five children per group).

2. Ask each group to brainstorm why it is good to be a boy or a girl on a piece of flipchart paper.

3. Give each group the task of creating and acting out a TV commercial explaining why it is good to be a girl or boy. Give the groups about 20 minutes to prepare. Each group has three minutes to act out their show.

Debriefing

Can you relate to the TV commercials you have created?

Is this always how boys and girls are presented in TV commercials?

What is different in usual commercials?

How do these images make you feel?

Why are girls and boys presented in this way in the TV? (Explain to the groups that the images of boys and girls in TV commercials often reflect and reproduce stereotypes that people have.)

,p>Where else do you see stereotypes in your life, apart from TV commercials?

Why do we use stereotypes?

Do you stereotype other people?

How can we try to get rid of stereotypes?

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