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