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Just friends? a peer-led lesson on gendered relationship cultures
Based upon the ‘just good friends’ drama performed in the morning session, children were encouraged to explore the gendered dynamics of mixed and single-sex friendships and the complexity of young relationship cultures.
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Crushing corporate gender stereotypes: a lego workshop
Children mind-mapped all the ways in which the media creates and challenges gender stereotypes. They then made their own ‘gender stereotype smashing machines’ with lego and post-its.
Camping Out: making gender feel-good shelters in a tent decorating workshop
Children decorated small pop-up tents with words and pictures of ‘when a body worries’ (on the inside of the tent) and ‘when a body feels good’ (on the outside of the tent) using sticky notes. They then explored ways of addressing body image stereotypes.
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Body Talk: moving through stereotypes
This workshop invited children to explore how the body communicates through movement in everyday routines. Based around the theme, “in their shoes”, children (in small groups) had the opportunity to experiment with peer pressure in peer cultures. They incorporated ‘gendered’ objects (e.g. heeled shoes, scarves, lipsticks, combs, mirrors, baseball caps) into their movement piece.
The Sexist Comment Cleaner
Smasher-Crasher
Plank of Doo
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