The Tolerance Centre's interactive multimedia programme for schoolchildren from years 4 to 11, catering to the social and age categories of schoolchildren.
Year 11. The choice of professional path has already been made.
I am a future doctor. Or a financier. Or a manager. Or an engineer...
If only it were that simple...
How many incarnations of the self are found between Me (Peter, clever, jolly, lazy, sporting...) and Homo Sapiens, a representative of the species of Intelligent Man.
What is my purpose in life?
Answer for yourself one small question about yourself: “Who am I?”
What is the first thing that comes into your head? The second? Third? After that?
Write your answers:
I am ____________ I am ____________ I am ____________ I am ____________ I am ____________
And now ask yourself, was it easy to give an answer?
Have you included “a Russian citizen” in your list? Why? What does this mean to you?
Aims:
- Realising the individual's diversity of social roles
- Building the framework for social identity
- Understanding the balance between social belongingness and the unique individual personality
- Building awareness of civil identity in the context of the wide spectrum of social roles
Target group: school year 11
Duration – 1 hour 20 minutes
Short description
The lesson begins with the customary short film, which puts before the participants the issues of becoming aware of one's own ego in the context of individual peculiarities and social belongingness. There then follows an interactive vote, whose results are then discussed to analyse the personal perceptions entertained by the young people about their social identity and their individual values. The subsequent work is carried out in a training format, including exercises on self-awareness as an individual and as a part of society by means of the playing of particular roles, and of the self as an integral personality, harmonically combining the individual and the general. The training session is concluded with a mini-lecture, intended to synthesise the impressions made in the course of the training and to supplement the picture of the social identity pertaining to such an important social role as that ofi a Russian citizen, and the values that stand behind it. The final questionnaire and processing of the results will further consolidate the experience gained, motivating socially active behaviour and the development of the students' own individuality.