English, Technology, Humanities and Interdisciplinary Resources

Racism No Way is a useful site for discussion of the media and racism. This site provides suitable newspaper stories and a student checklist to guide the process of analysing media reports.

“Focus on the media: Articles presented in the media report on current and sometimes controversial events which often do not reflect the breadth of perspectives on a particular issue. This section features articles relevant to contemporary issues of cultural, linguistic and religious diversity, including racism, and encourages students to analyse these articles critically.”

http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/focus/

The Racism. No Way site is also home to a range of lesson plans including:

  • Who Participates? Identifying Diversity. This audio-visual resource films Nick Giannopoulos - producer/director of 'The Wog Boy' giving insights into the non-representations of Australia's cultural diversity in the popular media. Students develop an understand of stereotypical portrayals of cultural groups. To access all the resources, use this link http://www.racismnoway.com.au then search the site using 20001010.
  • Culture of Peace is an English or Humanities lesson that explores the concept of peace through research into the content of television programs and the United Nations Declaration on A Culture of Peace. All resources are provided: use the link to the site then search the site using 20030822.
  • Gangs or Cliques? is an English or Humanities lesson that engages with the popular view that young people from ethnic minorities are more likely to be involved in groups coming together specifically for anti-social activities. While this position is not supported by the available research the media continues to encourage and exaggerate such concerns. This resources focuses on Asian youth but can readily be translated to other groups. Search for the lesson and resources using 20010731.

The Australian Children’s Television Foundation has more than 3000 items about children, young people and the media, accessible through on-line searches at http://www.actf.com.au/resource_centre/about.htm

The American site, Tolerance.org has a wide range of resources for teachers as well as young and older students and their parents. The resources can be searched by type, year level and theme. For instance, the link below takes you to a media literacy activity that challenges students to replace passive consumption of images with critical analysis: http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/ptolerance/plan.jsp?cid=53

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