Healthy Bodies - Strong Minds
Weeks 7&8
Global Learning Intention: We are learning about being healthy.
BIG IDEA: By keeping physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually fit, we are holistically looking after our HAUORA, (Health).
Big Questions for learning weeks 7&8:
What is a stereotype and how can it affect the way I think about myself and others?
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Authentic Contexts:
Stereotypes
The way different cultures see beauty
Positive body image
The effect of the media on self-perception
Profile photos
Photos from google. Use these if you want.
- Pin the profile photos around the classroom. Divide students into eight groups and give each group several profile sheets from Copysheet: Profile. Allocate a starting photo for each group and allow them a set period of time to come up with a profile of that person. Each group then moves on to the next photo, until they have worked with all the photographs.
Completed profiles
Consider: How accurate were your profiles?- some close some not so close it was just a mix of stereotypes and guessing so in conclusion stereotypes can be accurate sometimes but not always.
What sort of things did you make mistakes about? (Age, hobbies ...) hobbies and jobs age is pretty easy to guess
Why do you think your profiles weren’t always accurate? Because i can't look into their soul and guess who they are
What information did you use to make your profiles? Looks, their emotional state and or where they are. (The look of the person, what they were wearing, their culture, their age, what you think you know about people like that ...)
Is this a fair thing to do? Why or why not? IYes because to categorise someone could help due to the fact the you could be walking along and see someone with mongrel mob tattooed on his forehead and is holding a blood soaked knife it is probably best you avoid him under certain circumstances
What should you do before you make decisions about what a person is like? Get to know them maybe even become there friend and once you have got the crispy details then and only then can you really start making decisions on what the person likes and what he dislikes. (Really get to know them, find out about their personality, talk to them ...)
Create a list of the dangers of stereotyping people into categorie. You could get could out as racist for stereotyping and I could make someone feel really stink for assuming something that isn't true.
Knowing and Respecting People
1. Before I make a judgement about a person I should: ask some questions about them like where they were born and what age they are etc but it is still not good to assume someone's background.
2. It is unwise to stereotype people because it is a racist comment that is not always true and makes people feel insecure about themselves and kills their feelings.
3. We can make people in our school and community who we think are different feel
welcome by: not guessing who they are by their skin colour and or background.
4. In future when I meet new people I will try to … greet them with pleasure and honesty whilst not guessing who they are by their skin colour, money, voice, clothes and even hair colour.
We are all unique in our own ways and that doesn't mean we put people down for it and if we accidentally do then we apologise and stand them up again.
Cultural Perceptions of Beauty
- Brainstorm – What do you think is the perfect body? Draw/ cut pictures out of the magazine as to what they think the perfect body is? I can’t do this task because There is no such thing as the “perfect body”
- Is there such a thing? No there is not because people have preferences which mean different people like different things and more commonly different people have different preferences and the perfect body.
- Are children and adults pressured to LOOK a certain way? Definitely, especially year 7’s/ year 8’s because of self-esteem. For some reason, it is proven the children between the ages of 11 and 14 have lower self-esteems (a cough) puberty)
- What is vanity? How does it affect ‘The perfect body?” vanity is basicly when you're in love with your own body and yes it can affect the quote on quote perfect body because what you love may not be what everybody else likes.
- Culture – What is it? Culture is a religion or tribe that you follow that involves an area that you were born in.
My ideas and thoughts… my thoughts are that culture can be beautiful but sometimes it can be NASTY.
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The Customised Body – The perfect body?
What practices are you aware of?
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, earings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ZW6oSLnMM A more modern view of scarification.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs.
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
- Generation of women in China had their feet bound to attract men, the custom was supported to have been handed down since ancient times. “How to bind feet” pg 105 - 06Body Bizarre, Body beautiful
- Tattooing, piercing
- More technologically advanced societies, they also change the shape of their bodies, special diets, exercising, cosmetic surgery, liposuction, botox.
In some cultures the ideal body can be very different to the perception and beliefs in New Zealand.
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, ear – rings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs. Nose plumes and pearls
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
http://share100.goingviralposts.biz/coca-cola-campaign-aims-to-remove-labels/ Stereotypes in the dark An interesting point of view
This is a more modern approach to scarification and downright silly body alterations. My point of view there.
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