Engaging perspectives: Schools

This set of cards can be used to explore issues and topics relating specifically to schools. The cards consist of three different categories: stakeholders, priorities and emotional motivations. Each card has a series of questions to work through, and the categories when used in conjunction with each other, can encourage new or different arguments on a given topic.

The cards are designed with student leaders in mind, but can be used flexibly with students in class, or even with staff, to facilitate discussions on different topics or issues. The cards can be used by randomly selecting the different categories or be selecting the most appropriate combinations.

There are also templates for blank cards where topic-specific perspectives or different examples can be generated.

• Classroom connections

  The Engaging perspectives: Schools card deck can be used with student leaders as a way of introducing and engaging with different perspectives on a topic.

  Within the classroom, the card deck can be used to address parts of the Civics and citizenship curriculum that relates to identifying different points of views, active citizenship, or when examining the process of how decisions are made. 

• Related resources

  Engaging perspectives

  The school card deck can be used with the original Engaging perspectives card deck to explore even more perspectives, with additional stakeholders, priorities and emotional drivers.

  Action and influence

  This resource explores the different actions people can take to create change, and the nature of their influence, from small-scale, local outcomes to coordinated actions that can have global impact.

  Leadership and advocacy

  The Leadership and advocacy series includes six videos where members of parliament and young advocates discuss their leadership journeys, what motivates them and what they've learnt so far.