Socialisation

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Socialisation

• From SALTO Inclusion Diversity
• Booklet

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• SOCIALISATION
• Where do our perceptions (but also our values,
  opinions, assumptions,) come from? They have
  been created throughout our lives, in our
  education, via our experiences, It is a sort of
  programming that has taken place that makes us
  see one thing rather than another. This
• programming is called socialisation. It is the
  process of adopting the behaviour patters of the
  surrounding culture or social group. It allows
  you to function properly within that social group
  of people (because you learn to say the things as
  they understand it, you learn to interpret things
  in the same way, etc).
• An exercise to show how socialisation works
• Use the following picture on a big sheet of paper
  or on an overhead transparency.
• 1 Ask half of the group to close their eyes and
  show the A B C horizontal line to the others
• (cover the 12 14). They should only observe for
  a few moments what they see. Take the
• paper away.
• 2 Ask the other half of the group to close their
  eyes and show 12 13 14 to the group that had
  their
• eyes closed first (cover the A C). Let them
  observe what they see for a few moments. Take
• the paper away.
• 3 Everybody can watch again and then you only
  show the character in the middle (covering
• the A, C, 12 and 14). Ask everybody to write down
  immediately what they see. Ask what

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Half group close eyes
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Other half close eyes
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Make pairs. One pencil between two. Draw what you
see.
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Debriefing

• What did you see? Did you see different things?
• Why did the different groups see something
  different?
• Does a similar procedure happen as well in real
  life? Examples?
• What conclusions can we draw from this
  exercise?

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Whole picture