Resource 6
DramaCommunity cohesion and the prevention of violent extremism
A resource for teachers to use in the classroom
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Resource title Lorry Source: See attached Word document Teaching Materials and Strategies |
| Outline These teaching materials and strategies offer 3 poems and a dramatic monologue as stimulus, all of which can be used as starting points for a collective whole group drama on the theme of migration and cultural diversity. The materials will help to guide teachers through different drama strategies, which provide students opportunities to share imagined experience and reflect on the reasons why people undertake great hardship and danger to build new lives in other lands. These resources engage students with political, social and economic issues but are deliberately ambiguous in terms of geographical and cultural settings thus could be adapted for specific 'real-life' contexts. Through using imagined and non-specific national boundaries and cultures, this work can help students to develop understandings of the migrant experience and reflect on the ways in which existing communities respond to new arrivals. Suggested drama strategies include :
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| Links across other subjects within resource PSHE education, Geography, English |
| Additional support Teachernet teaching about controversial issues http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/behaviour/tacklingbullying/racistbullying/preventing/controversialissues/ BBC News Have Your Say Special http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking-point/.../migration Stalker's Guide to International Migration (A basic Guide to the history, economics and politics of international migration) www.pstalker.com/migration/ OneWorld Migration Guide www.one.world.net/guides/migration |