Somehow our ancestors moved from one continent to another looking for food and shelter.Then later some became early explorers and settlers in alien land,migrating to look for freedom and land.
Yesterday when I did the document on Universal human Rights,the kids were bored as there was a lot of reading of abstract ideas and academic language.So I cooked up a teamwork game today. We pushed the tables to one side ,leaving an empty space ,then the ngirls became immigration officers while the boys were refugees who are leaving the boats and trying to run to land on the opposite side of the class.The immigration officers held paper batons made of rolled up papers and try to hit the refugees to drive them back up the boat.If caught they are thrown into a detention centre witha guard.The rest of the refugees will try to rescue the inmates and then together run to the alien land.There was so much tension and screams and running around.
Then we cooled down and discussed the reasons why people become refugees.I let them listen to the music video by Sting on song Inshallah.They were engrossed.later we divided them into a debate with two teams one the immigration and the other the refugees spokesperson.It was wonderful,they researched the topic and debated passionately and it was worthy to see young Malaysian debating in a gentlemanly manner ,fighting with facts and not emotions.
democracy requires us to train the youths to think critically and argue logically
there is hope for these young malaysians.Kudos I feel optimistic again.
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