Who do we think we are?
Come into my world 1
This lesson looks at our awareness of our place in the world.
Key questions:
- What are symbols of identity?
- What is your place in the world?
Awareness of our place in the world helps us to establish a clear identity for ourselves and an appreciation of who we are. Equally importantly, it encourages us to be curious, and subsequently develop an understanding and tolerance of people from diverse ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds - including identifying ways that they are both similar to and different from us. Our worlds expand in scale from the personal and local to the international and global. Each one of us sees importance in different people, places and connections between and within these scales, and we put value and meaning into our personal geographies.
Our worlds are made up of a number of different elements, each one personal to the individual. These elements, whether they relate to where we were born, our religion, ethnicity, social class, education, dress, music or hobbies, make up who we are and how we perceive ourselves. How these elements come together form part of our identity.
Welcoming people into ‘my world' shows a depth of understanding about who we are, as well as an acceptance that everybody else inhabits and experiences different worlds that are important to them. Our identity is at the very centre of our individual worlds, and understanding of this connects us to the personal, local, national, international and global worlds in which we live. It makes us both local and global citizens.
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