6. WITH WHOM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE
THE SAME HOUSE?
Steps of the exercise:
a)
Individually, you select with whom would
you prefer to share the same house by rating the 14 possibilities
from 1 (best choice) to 14 (never!). 15 minutes
b) In groups of 4, you exchange your three
best and three worst choices, and discuss the reasons which
led to your choice or refusal. 30 minutes
c) In plenary, we debrief and exchange
on the exercise. 30 minutes.
A single mother with a 3 year-old child whose father is
Tunisian. He visits his son occasionally and sometimes brings
along a few friends.
An ex-Yugoslavian refugee family with 5 children aged between
1 and 12.
A family with a 17 year-old daughter attending 11th grade
at a secondary school. Father is an accountant in a bank,
mother is a teacher.
A single 70 year-old lady living on minimal retirement
pension.
A group of 4 Rumanian migrants all working in a restaurant.
A group of 5 young people living an alternative life-style
rejecting the materialistic ideology of consumption.
Three Palestinian students who are politically engaged.
A Gypsy family of 5 persons. Father works occasionally and
is unemployed in between times. They are part of a larger
family which has strong ties and likes to hold festivities.
An American couple without children. Husband is working
at the American embassy, wife is taking care of the household
and 3 dogs.
Two African artists, approximately 40 years old who live
a rather bohemian and unconventional life-style and have
many artist friends.
A girl studying piano who has to practice regularly in
the afternoons.
A religious Muslim family with 5 children.
A family of African refugees, husband, wife and 2 cousins.
Only two of them seem to have a job.
A group of 3 young students whose main passions are rap
music and videos.
[Method adapted for use in the IYCS-IMCS seminar "Racism's
new look in Europe", European Youth Centre, February
1993. See also: European Youth Centre, Intercultural Learning,
Examples of Methods Used, Training Courses Resource File,
Volume 4 second edition, 1992]
There is an activity in the all different all equal education
pack called "Eurorail
a la carte" that uses a similar technique,
but a different scenario: the situation is a long train
journey and the problem is to decide who you would like
– and not like – to share a compartment with.
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