G9T6 - being shaped by your surroundings

Workshop objectives:

  • To raise awareness about the power of language and the media in shaping personal relationships and society.
  • To generate a critical view of the manipulative power of advertising.
  • To become aware of how our surroundings influence the way we see ourselves.

Key concepts:

  • Social control and group pressure
  • Perfect bodies
  • Treatment of gender in advertising and the media
  • Hypersexualization

Activities:

session 1

  1. No need to be dolls (20’)
  2. Being me (30’)

session 2

  1. The tree of life (85’)

Alternative activities:

  1. Hypersexualization? (60’)
  2. Does sex sell? (45’)
  3. Advertising and stereotypes (20’)

Documents:

You can download all the workshop documents in a single one zip file [zip 11,8MB]