Children and FORB – rights and responsibilities

A problem-solving role-play exercise based on a fictional scenario, in which participants work together to recommend a course of action.

About the exercise

  • Group exercise
  • Time required : 1 h 20 minutes
  • Target audience : Any type of audience. Particularly relevant to faith communities and the leadership/staff of faith-based organisations, and anyone working with children’s rights, schools and education. Requires participants to have a good understanding of freedom of religion or belief (FORB), as this exercise explores complex elements of the right.

Purpose

  • To help participants develop their analytical and problem-solving skills on the rights of parents and children and of faith-based institutions in relation to FORB.

Description

A problem-solving role-play exercise based on a fictional scenario, in which participants work together to recommend a course of action.

Note

This exercise works well as a follow-up to ‘Dimensions of FORB’, for use with the 7-min FORB Learning Platform ‘Film 6. Rights for parents and children’. Find the film here.

Source: Rachel Fleming, Adapted from the FORB Learning Platform’s online training of the trainers’ course.

 

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