Watch The Learning film clip

(5 minutes)

The Film clip looks at how trust has to be rebuilt after many years of conflict. It looks at how being accepted culturally provides people with an opportunity to share and celebrate who they are with others who they may not have felt comfortable or safe doing so before. This provide the teacher with an opportunity to look at how we can use what has happened here as a lesson for everyone who meets someone else they see as different to themselves.

Discuss/Think

(10 minutes)

In small groups, use Worksheet Six as a stimulus to:

Discuss the ways you think communities in the North of Ireland have felt a threat (even if it is not real).
How does your particular cultural identity help you have a sense of self and safety?
Given what you have learned or understood from this engagement between the Londonderry Bands Forum and An Gaeláras, can you identify any ways that the chances of conflict can be lessened and cooperation nurtured/promoted?

Share

(5 minutes)

Each group feeds back their work so that the teacher can use this as a springboard for a short discussion about what can be done to encourage better relations between communities who see themselves as different to another community.

Discuss/Think

(20 minutes)

In small groups, use Worksheet Seven as a stimulus to discuss and develop a diagram on a large piece of paper to:

Identify the major cultural groups that are present in NI, put them in circles around the edge of the paper.
Within the circles, list the things that identify them as belonging to that group e.g. religion etc.
In the centre of the page draw another circle and list the things that can be done to promote good relations, trust, cooperation and celebration of each other.

Share

(5 minutes)

The teacher asks each group to show the rest of the groups their sheets of paper and the teacher can use this as a springboard for a short discussion about how many different ways we describe ourselves, reinforcing the earlier discussion.

Exercise

(5 minutes)

Use Worksheet Eight in small groups as a stimulus to write down who should be/is responsible for implementing the suggestions identified in the exercise contained in Worksheet Seven.

Share

(5 minutes)

Each group feeds back their work so that the teacher can use this a springboard for a short discussion on how it is possible to change what happens in communities and societies.

Learning Points

• Understand that we can be identified by more than one aspect of who we are.
• Everyone has things about themselves that are both different and common to others.
• Understand that how we see ourselves may not be how others see us.

Next Time

• Specifically at the engagement during the Fleadh between the Londonderry Bands Forum and the Fleadh organisers to see how they were able to come together through a shared musical heritage.

Worksheets

• Worksheet 6
• Worksheet 7

Films