CULKAS. Changins 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


What are stereotypes?

• Thoughts or ideas currently accepted by a group or society and that present a immutable character.

Are they all true?


Activity main goal:

How to overcome stereotypes by the use of language and dialogue.


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)


Germany

• Beer


Germany

• Punctuality


Germany

• Hard-working


Germany

• Good cars


Germany

• Sausages


Germany

• Teamwork



• 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)



• 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.


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).


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.


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.


MATERIALS

• Different colour post-its

• Black feltips

• Normal (and big) blackboard / whiteboard

• Camera (for final pictures)


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.

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