Changing negative perceptions of gangs

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Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Geography and PSHE.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of the TRANSGANG team in Spain and what it means to be an anthropologist. The researchers are working with Latino and Arab youth gangs from several locations in the Americas, Southern Europe and North Africa, and across different gang cultures, including pandillas, clicas, combos and maras. Their aim is to change our negative perceptions of youth gangs and to help them integrate into society using mediation.

• This resource also contains interviews with anthropologists working this project. If your students (or you) have questions for the TRANSGANG team, you/they can send them to the anthropologists online. All you need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). The team will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the TRANSGANG project and challenges them to consider ethical problems.

• The PowerPoint reiterates some of the points in the article.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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