5AL 22/23 dealing with "the Dangers of a Single Story"... by Ms Patrizia Malausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e All the stories we live and tell make us who we are... "But to insist on only negative stories is to flatten our experience and to overlook many other stories that form us. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story...". It is indeed "impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar..." - says Ms C.N. Adichie. Are we always aware, able and willing to recognise "single stories"? Can we spot stereotypes and biased narrations? Why is awareness paramount to Planetary Citizens? Let's try and respond to these questions... en-us 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC 2023-01-28 11:21:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f308.png 5th step/Literature Talk: let's reflect and talk .. patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089282 Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: the most famous early Victorians narrated stories - in and through  their novels and poems - that are still well known nowadays: what was (and still is) the impact and value of these stories? Are they 'single stories', and are they dangerous?

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Edward Morgan Forster and other Modernist authors also told stories that had an impact...
]]> 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089282 4th step: let's discuss and deepen our awareness... patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089283 Students post their own answers to the following questions to this Padlet wall: 

What are examples of "single stories" in your personal life?
What are examples of "single stories" in your education?
What are examples of "single stories" in the news?
How might we begin to "reject the single story" - at School/in Education - in our lives to regain Adichie's so-called "paradise"?
]]> 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089283 3rd step: let's define and describe 'a kind of Paradise'... patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089285 After watching Adichie's thought-provoking video and analysing the Nigerian novelist's inspiring speech, Students post a comment and give their own personal definition of 'a kind Paradise' we might regain by rejecting 'single stories'...]]> 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089285 2nd step: let's analyse Ms Adichie's speech in detail... patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089286 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089286 1st step: let's become aware and learn about "the danger of a single story"... patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089287 2022-09-29 09:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319089287 6th step: let's talk about Goals! patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319097408 2022-09-29 09:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2319097408 Slam Poetry patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2341300441 2022-10-15 12:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2341300441 7. Analysing, synthesising, discussing the Language as a vehicle for biased communication and cultural conditioning patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349238846 2022-10-20 15:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349238846 8. Education as a key to success: about the 2022 UN Transforming Education Summit patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349285054 https://www.un.org/en/transforming-education-summit/about]]> 2022-10-20 15:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349285054 9. Tranforming Education? patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349294935 2022-10-20 15:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349294935 10. Youth Declaration on Tranfosrming Education patriziamalausa https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349296645 2022-10-20 15:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/patriziamalausa/5caoiqq5zt28f91e/wish/2349296645