Active Citizens Global Toolkit - Active Citizens - British Council

Debrief:
� What did people feel during that activity? Why?
� What did we notice about what is important to people?
� Did it make us curious?
� Brainstorm ‘what do we feel are some of the influences which lead us
to see some things as more important than others? Where do these
influences come from?’ Experience, background, culture, an inner
feeling...
� Could we imagine the post-it notes changing and moving? E.g. things
becoming more or less important to us? Does anyone have any
examples? Gather examples E.g. ‘when I became a father, my daughter
became the centre of my world’. ‘When I was living abroad I felt a
stronger connection to my national identity’, ‘when we encounter
difference or similarity’.
� Are there any examples of global events which have had an impact on
our identity?
� What have we learned about our identities?
- Our identities are influenced by the lives we lead. ‘I am,
because you are, because we are’ (known as UBUNTU): we
are shaped in part by the whole (the world around us).
- Share that our identities can change over time, they are
multiple, and we can emphasise different parts of our identity
in the moment - one way to describe this is ‘identity lenses’
i.e. when we look at things from a particular standpoint: ‘as a
mother’, ‘as a friend’, ‘as a football fan’, ‘as a teacher’….
Looking with different
identity lenses:
TEACHER
AFRICAN
MOTHER
FOOTBALL
FAN
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