How do your female and male students feel at the mere thought of having to open the math book? And would your female students be enthusiastic about taking part in a football game? What do they really think? The time has come to address the topic with Storytelling!
Thanks to the freedom and power of Storytelling as a communication tool, bring out the reasons why your female and male students can experience negative feelings towards one discipline compared to another.
How does the "Feel GS" activity work?
The Feel GS activity is designed as a game that the teacher can propose in class and is based on the Storytelling methodology.
The teacher has at his disposal a deck of 90 cards divided into 30 incipit cards, 30 object cards and 30 feeling cards from which, in turn, each student will have to draw one card for each type
Starting from the content of the cards drawn, the girls and boys will have to write a short story that contains the three elements drawn and that talks about their experience or how they feel in relation to the situation they will describe.
Objectives of the educational activity
Increase the awareness of female and male students regarding the existence of gender stereotypes
Increase the awareness of female and male students regarding the influence that gender stereotypes can exert on individuals both explicitly and implicitly
Provide female and male students with the tools to recognize the action of gender stereotypes
Develop the creativity of female and male students