PROFESSIONS AND GENDER Age group: 13 - 77 Keywords: Equality, Professions, Competence, Stereotypes in professions, Reflection. Time required: 45 minutes Number of people: Minimum 3, maximum 30 Equipment, materials, and space needed: Tables, chairs, cards, labels with professions’ names, whiteboards, and markers. Activity explored and suggested by: Escola Profissional de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural de Marco de Canaveses - Portugal.
Aim of the method: To develop cooperation competences, to practice effectiveness and following rules, to promote exercising free expression of opinion, to value competence over stereotype and to reflect about choices and personal views. Preparation: Tags with professions and cards.
DESCRIPTION INTRO The facilitator contextualizes the activity within the scope of the concrete context where the session takes place, the contents, the educational process and/or the group concerned. The facilitator presents him or herself. EXPERIENCE The facilitator asks each participant to say his or her the name, age, and profession he or she would like to have in the future. The facilitator shares with the group what are the intended objectives for the session: ■ ■ ■ ■
That participants find solutions to the challenges created; To let all elements participate; That all challenges are completed within the stipulated deadline; That participants recognise the importance of achieving goals regardless of their difficulty; ■ That everyone recognises competence as a differentiating factor.
The facilitator divides the group into subgroups of 3 elements and invites them to sit at the organized tables (already with chairs, a box with professions, and posters). Each subgroup has a box with several professions on its table. All groups have the same professions in its box: Assistant on board; Professional footballer; Child Educator, Mechanic; President of the Republic, Factory Employee, Hotel Floor Employee, Extreme Sports Monitor, Sociocultural Animator, and Tour Guide.
65
