Diversity+ Serious game

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Welcome to the Diversity+ Serious game.

By playing the interactive scenarios, you’ll have the chance to practice and make decisions in real-life situations and see how your choices may help children in recognizing and challenging bias rather than internalizing them.

You’ll have at your disposal 31 scenarios, divided as follows:

  • Language: choice of words, for example avoiding the use of labels and preferring strengths-based language, to contribute to inclusive attitudes
    • New in school
    • Name calling
    • Johnny and Mary
  • Differences: respecting and valuing differences beyond own families and communities
    • They left me out
    • Easter or ramadan
  • Age and Physical Abilities: demonstrating that people with canes or are not all wheelchairs elderly, inactive or unable to contribute.
    • Music class
    • Toys for grown-ups
    • The elephant
    • Anthony’s drawing
  • Physical Characteristics: challenging bias about physical characteristics by developing empathy.
    • A tall girl
    • Limping girl in class
    • The princess
    • The boy’s weight
  • Gender: challenging bias about preferences in professions, sports, colours, clothes, toys.
    • Male teacher
    • Genderless toys
    • The tree climber
    • The boy’s air
  • Family Composition and Sexual Orientation: supporting the diversity of families, i.e. single-parent families, group and children’s homes, two-parent families, including families with two adults of the same gender, negotiating among diverse views to create environments respectful of difference.
    • I live only with my mom
    • My two dads
  • Economic Class: challenging the notion that having money makes one a better person (housing, clothes, occupations, etc.).
    • Do clothes make the man?
    • A school trip
    • Bobby’s t-shirt
  • Ethnicity: developing awareness of and respect for the language and ethnic group diversity.
    • Concerned parent
    • Christmas tradition
    • The missing toy car
    • The girls’ air
  • Cooperative Problem-Solving: develop cooperative skills rather than competitive ones to accept diverse perspectives and solve common problems related to bias.
    • Football match
    • I made a mistake
    • I know how to ask for help
    • Shared toys
    • Apologise!

Enjoy the game!

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