Instructions
The teacher organizes the class in “learning/working islands” in order to split students in mixed (by gender) groups.
According to the number of students in the class, each student or in pairs, read the informations they have found about gender and sport.
Working in groups: each group is going to discuss the topics of the articles. The discussion in each group is going to be based on the “I statement model” and each student of the group is going to express his/her feelings and emotions about the topic and the reason why these emotions came out. Each student is asked to act respecting self-regulation is social behaviour.
Working in groups: In a second stage each group cooperates in the creation of a poster in which are expressed the emotions and feelings of the group’s members about the topic. Each group is going to present to the class the “group panel”.
Common discussion: After all the groups present their works, the teacher is going to lead a common debate in which students are welcomed to exchange their opinion and what can be done in everyday life in order to booster the positive feelings/emotions and transform the negative ones, and thus contribute in the reduction of gender based attitudes in sport environment.
Conclusion: students will again work in groups and create small panels with the ideas they suggested to implement in their daily life in order to reduce gender stereotypes in sport. The panels will be exposed in a dedicated space in the class.