In Your Shoes
Promoting community cohesion and exploring issues of identity and diversity in the classroom and outside through Active Citizenship and Schools Linking.
Is it possible to stand in someone else’s shoes and see the world from their point of view?
Can we enable others to stand in our shoes?
How does it feel to stand in someone else’s shoes?
If we could do that, would it make us feel differently about them?
Would it make us feel differently about ourselves?
In Your Shoes started as a Bradford-based project to promote enterprise and understanding of diversity set up by Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College working in partnership with the Schools Linking Project.
Year 7 students from six secondary schools across the Bradford district and two schools in Pakistan all accepted the challenge to explain to the others what it is like to stand in their shoes.
The students worked with film, design and writing; they met each other and where possible, visited each other’s schools; they filmed in schools, communities, mosques and homes to really show each other what their lives are like. The final DVD gives a fascinating insight into how young people today feel about their own identities and how they see each other.
The students saw this work as a crucially important piece of community cohesion:
“…so we don’t just pass each other in the street blankly…”
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