Walker and Portal. Photo by Judith Jackson via Flickr CC-BY-2.0
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Many of us won’t be here to meet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
An activity that can be adapted across Junior Cycle subjects that imagines the possibilities of another world and what that might look like.
The Method series features pedagogies and methods for the teacher & trainer’s toolbox.
The Indian author and political activist, Arundhati Roy, referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘portal, a gateway between one world and the next’.
She wrote, that if we are ‘ready to fight for it’, COVID-19 could be an opportunity to ‘imagine another world’.
- Drawing on what you know about globalization and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, write, record, create or make your vision for another, better world of the future, the future that you think
that we should all be ready to fight for. - Take a photo of your finished work and disseminate it via relevant social media platforms using the hashtag #ABetterWorld.
Junior cycle relevance (SAMPLE ONLY): CSPE LOs 1.1 & 2.1;
Digital Media Literacy LO 4.5; Philosophy LOs 7.1-7.6 & 8.1-8.6; SPHE LO 4.8
- The activity was developed by the WWGS Team in the publication Global Citizenship Education in a Time of Covid-19: A Cross-Curricular Resource for Junior Cycle.
The Method series features pedagogies and methods for the teacher & trainer’s toolbox.
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