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26 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM Exercise: Children´s rights expressed through art The students receive a selection of children´s rights (for example, as postcards). Then you read the children´s rights that you want to introduce to them. Build groups. Each group can present their ideas by producing a poster on a children´s right. Then hang-up all posters in class and discuss the ideas together. 1. What is their understanding of this particular right? 2. What is the focus in the poster? 3. Does it relate to a concrete experience? 4. What do they think about this right? Episode 2: Secret (told by Tina) Episode two is about Tina´s problem caused by the school sport week and the giggling of some girls. Manar, who saw the tears in her face, came to sit next to her on a bench. Manar can un- derstand what is going on with Tina. She has the empathy to recognize emotions that are expe- rienced by Tina. She is able to share, and feel, Tina´s emotions. She is caring for her. Very often children, as well as adults, have secrets. They often keep problems as a secret and do not want to speak about them. They often do not want to talk about when they were physically or psychologically hurt by others. They might be unhappy and sad and not trust any- one to share this with. Tina is in such a situation when she hears the whispering of the girls and does not know what is going on. Leading Idea 1: Secret Nearly every human being has a secret. It can be something fascinating and wonderful that makes you happy, but it can also be something that upsets you very much. A secret can also give a certain amount of power to a person who knows about things, while other people are not permitted to know about them. Children understand this kind of power and distinguish between the persons they want to share their private thoughts and secrets with, and others who are not permitted to know them. You can also find resources on the concept of “secret” in the manual to Ella, episode 7, leading idea 2. Discussion Plan: Secret 1. If you do not want to talk about something, does it mean you consider it to be a secret? 2. What do you mean by “secret”? 3. Does everyone have a secret? 4. Is it still a secret if you tell it to someone? 5. Can you share a secret? 6. What is a secret? 7. Is everything that you do not talk about a secret? 8. Why do we have secrets?