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Social Puzzle

35m
4 – 30
To recognize how certain features of our identity are subject to stereotypes or prejudices within a society.
Sensitize
Human rights: Identity; Equality: Non-discrimination
Middle
On-site: Indoors; Remote: Self-taught, Tutored
Lecture, Plenary session, Group work
Adolescents, Adults, Older adults
by Defensoría del Pueblo de Ecuador
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  • Link with experience15
  • Reflect10
  • Integrate knowledge10
          Link with experience
          15 min

          1. Previously, verify that the number of participants matches the number of pieces of the puzzle (each puzzle has 4 pieces). Mix the pieces by color and shape.

          2. Explain that each puzzle piece that you are going to give them has an aspect of identity and a social group written in it:

            1. sex : work / study
            2. nationality : friends
            3. age group : celebrities or public figures
            4. political / ideological thinking : family

          3. Give each person a piece of the puzzle, ask them to read what is written on one side of the piece, and the other side, ask them to write 3 people who are of the same social group but with a different aspect of identity, for example, if it says "gender: work / study", write the name of 3 people who are part of your work or studies group, but that have a different sex.

          4. When everyone is finished, ask the social puzzle to be put together. For this, people should be grouped according to the color of their puzzle pieces.

          Reflect
          10 min

          1. In plenary session, reflect with the group:

            • Were you able to establish relationships between all the people in your puzzles?
            • Will there be someone who is not related to anyone else?
            • What does the puzzle represent?
            • How are integration and human rights related?
          Integrate knowledge
          10 min

          1. Point out that:

            • Human beings have the need for roots and feeling as "part" of a family, classmates, the group of friends, the place where we were born, or the religion that we identify with.
            • "Beyond the mere fact of integrating a group, it involves any personal identification, bonding, adopting shared norms and habits, and a sense of solidarity with the other members" (The Sense of Belonging, nd, p. 2).  
            • When we seek to be included, regardless of group, this can often be abstract; we are responding to a fundamental human need: recognition and identity.
            • Satisfying this need becomes the fulfillment of the right to this recognition and to having an identity.
            • According to art. 276 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador (CRE), the recognition of different identities and promotion of their representativeness is a development objective.
            • In addition to this, identity is a fundamental aspect of equality, so, the Constitution, in art. 11, stipulates that nobody can be discriminated against because of their identity, as well as art. 57, which states that nobody can be subject to racism or any discrimination based on ethnic or cultural identity.
            • The recognition of "ethnic, national, social, generational, gender and sexual orientation and gender identity differences" (CRE, art. 83, paragraph 14), are part of the responsibilities of Ecuadorians.