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regarding issues of sexuality and gender. The game is constructed to identify issues
of gender and sexuality stereotypes and make conscious the inequalities and power
imbalance within society and the educational environment. The game draws on the
and sexuality. Through the games capacity to make evident the varying social
critical pedagogy we are able to explore how the inequity is manifested within the
educational system.
3) The game is initially most accurately conducted with the use of a diverse range of
participants. The game consists of four people with four cardboard cut-out shaped
body figures. The participants will be assigned a labelled card. The labels consist of
four categories these are; Female, Male, Gay, and Lesbian. The participants will
then be given a time limit of forty seconds to clothe their figures with the assorted
facial features, hair styles and clothing. When the time is up each participant is
asked to state what their assigned gender/ sexuality was and explain why they chose
to clothe the figures in the distinct style they selected. Through the task we are able
to identify the cause of these stereotypes and where they may still be practiced
modernism. The game draws inherently from social justice issues of inequality
caused by as sexuality and gender diversity. Issues of habitus and normalization are
also underlying concepts the game attempts to elucidate. Drawing on theories of …..
Conclusions can be made that students who are of diverse sexual orientation are
often marginalised or penalised based simply on their diversity and are expected to
their quality of education. Habitus discourses “the set of dominant social norms,
should constantly critique and challenge existing power structures such as cultural
capital and socially fabricated superiority in order to strengthen democracy and take
2016) in order to provide all students irrespective of their diversity with quality
are “required to recognize, value and provide for diversity” (Carrington, S., &
different language skills. The roots of project-based learning lie in the early twentieth-
generation of social and political change” (Petersen & Nassaji, 2016, p. 14)
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Carrington, S., & Robinson, R. (2004). A case study of inclusive school development:
Keddie, A. (2011). Educating for diversity and social justice. Professional Educator,
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Petersen, C. & Nassaji, H.(2016). Project-Based Learning through the Eyes of Teachers and
Students in Adult ESL Classrooms. The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue
canadienne des langues vivantes 72(1), 13-39. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved May 5,
2016, from Project MUSE database.