Development Education - NUI Maynooth

Last week myself and two other girls went on a trip with Mrs. L to NUI Maynooth to give a talk to student teachers about Development Education. When we arrived we set up the room that we were doing our presentation in and we looked over our powerpoint. We then got the chance to sit in on a lecture with the students which we really enjoyed. After the lecture we went back to the room to prepare for our presentation.
There were fifteen students listening to our presentaion. Firstly we asked them to vote on what topic they wanted to focus in on, they chose gender. We then based our activities around the topic of gender starting with "Role Cards".
They were all given the name of a girl and a short description of her, we then asked them a series of statements and if they related to the girl they had they took a step forward. In the end the result was that the girls in the developed world were nearer the front and the girls in the developing world were at the back. We then showed them a video about stereotypes towards females which was a stimulus to this activity.

Here is the video.....



Our second activity was a graffiti wall where the students got to illustrate or write their feelings about how society sees women and how they want to be viewed. It was interesting to see what the women said compared to the men. Whilst they were doing that we had one volunteer do a podcast on what the other students were writing.
Here is the podcast....

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