Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 04: Britain - a diverse society?
Section 5: What images do we have of Britain? (2)
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Objectives |
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- about the role of the media in forming and influencing attitudes and opinions
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Activities |
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- How are different ethnic groups represented in the news? Using a range of media sources (newspapers, recording of TV and/or radio programmes, websites, etc) ask small groups of pupils to analyse news stories from a specified day or week. Ask pupils to divide their findings into positive and negative. Are any stereotypes used? What is the ratio of positive to negative? How could negative headlines or statements be turned into positive ones? Discuss and identify the reasons why the media portrays people differently, eg to make stories more interesting, to sell news.
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- analyse information and use evidence from the media to illustrate different attitudes to communities
- recognise the reasons why the media uses positive and negative stories and images
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Points to note |
- This activity links with section
2 in unit 9 'The significance of the media in society'.
- This section can also be used to explore media images of people with different abilities, ages, etc.
- Extension activity: pupils could investigate racism in
football and the role of the media. How has the sport attempted to deal with
racism? The pack 'Show racism the red card' may be useful, see www.srtrc.org
- It is important to emphasise that everyone has an ethnicity and ensure that the term 'ethnicity' is not used only for minority groups.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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