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3.5 Diversity and interpersonal skills

Social Studies · Grade 8 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Socio-cultural diversities in Kenya: communities, languages, faiths, ways of life
  • Inclusion and respect in a diverse society
  • Building healthy self-esteem in a culturally diverse society
  • Impact of emotions on self and others
  • Peer pressure in a culturally diverse environment
  • Managing peer pressure; communication messages on diversity

What you will be able to do

  • explore social cultural diversities in Kenya
  • explain ways of building a healthy self-esteem in diverse social cultural society
  • describe the impact of emotions on self and others
  • manage peer pressure in a culturally diverse environment
  • appreciate social cultural diversities in Kenya

Key questions

“How can we demonstrate respect and appreciation of social cultural diversity and inclusion?”

Lessons

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  1. Socio-cultural diversity in Kenya
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    What socio-cultural diversity means in Kenya across peoples, languages, faiths and ways of life, without ranking communities.
  2. Inclusion versus othering
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Concrete school acts that demonstrate respect and inclusion, and how othering is a small cousin of the lie studied in the slave-trade sub-strand.
  3. Building healthy self-esteem in a diverse society
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How cultural mockery crushes worth, how majority pride can inflate, and ways to build I matter and you matter in a mixed Kenya.
  4. Diversity in this class and county
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How to map local socio-cultural diversity with respect, including urban mix, and how cohesion is a choice in a real place.
  5. Impact of emotions on self and others
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How joy, fear, anger and shame land on the self and on other people in a diverse class, and why a tribe insult is a public harm.
  6. Peer pressure in a culturally diverse school
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Negative pressure to mock or hide home versus positive pressure to include, and how to name the pull before managing it.
  7. Managing peer pressure: role-play
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Pause, name, principle, ally, adult - practised in kind skits of culturally loaded pressure, using assertiveness not fists.
  8. Messages on diversity and inclusion
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How to compose class communication messages that answer the inquiry, appreciate Kenyan diversity, and close the sub-strand with a kept act.