Decisiveness

• Suggested duration: 15 mins
• Technique used: Short lecture
• Materials required: Slides
• Aim of activity: To encourage learners to think about decision making processes
• Underpinning components: UC12.1a; UC12.3a
• Connection with other competences: Attentiveness

Short description

Responses to dilemmas. Need to sometimes bend or break rules? Examples from history e.g. suffragettes, anti-slavery, gay rights. Revolution vs evolution. Need to change society to make it sustainable?

• Suggested duration: 20 mins
• Technique used: Small group discussion
• Materials required: Examples of real life problems with possibly social, environmental and economic impact
• Aim of activity: To encourage learners to think about different solutions and then think of the values that might underpin them
• Underpinning components: UC12.1b; UC12.2a; UC12.2b
• Connection with other competences: Attentiveness; Responsibility

Short description

Small groups each study a different real life problem-based scenario and try to come up with at least six different solutions/ways forward. Then for each solution consider which values underpin it and which might be compromised. Whole group, discuss solutions proposed and the related values.

• Suggested duration: 15 mins
• Technique used: Individual activity ‘quiz’
• Materials required: Slides of various simple dilemmas 
• Aim of activity: To encourage learners to reflect on values and principles that underpin decisions
• Underpinning components: UC12.1b; UC12.2a
• Connection with other competences: Responsibility

Short description

Individually, learners quickly reflect on each dilemma presented and write down their response. Small groups then discuss their choices and the reasons those decisions were made. Whole group then discuss the various principles that underpinned decisions and whether there were any inconsistencies.

• Suggested duration: 15 mins
• Technique used: A race across a room followed by reflective discussion
• Materials required: Materials that suggest an ‘egg & spoon’ race eg different round objects, spoons of different sizes, forks etc.
• Aim of activity: To highlight the range of decisions people take, how they have imnplications and how some people act according to different values.
• Underpinning components: UC12.2a; UC12.3b
• Connection with other competences: Responsibility

Short description

In groups of three ask them to select an implement and an ‘egg’. Gather at a start point. State that ‘All three members need to travel across the room as quickly as possible while keeping their egg in the spoon’ (Imply but do not specify that they should do this one at a time). Run the race a few times and see if anyone complains that it is not fair (e.g. different implements, different ‘eggs’ or someone is cheating). Plenary: discuss reactions and thoughts e.g. thoughts about cheating, equality, rules.