Fairness and what we can do about it

Introduction

The concept of fairness is something we spend a lot of time on in our early years. We talk about whether our playground games are fair, whether we have the same amount of party treats, whether we have the same opportunities at school. In the Oxford English Dictionary, fairness is described as “the practice or quality of involving people equally or on equal terms.”(Oxford English Dictionary) but it can be hard sometimes to know what fair circumstances are.

 We would all like to believe we are living in a fair world but what does a fair world look like?

Aims

In this course, you will:

• Find out why fairness is important and how it is measured
• What stops us from being fair?
• Understand the different labels that we have in society and how they can impact on how we are treated
• Try out tools that enable us to understand our role in society and the world
• Reflect on what a fair world would look like
• Find out ways we can take action to make the world better today and in the future.

This course structured to be an interactive mix of videos, padlets and quizzes. It’s broken into several sections so you can access it at a time and place that works for you. This training is part of the Changemakers programme and is aimed at young people aged between 9 and 14.

The course also uses Padlets so you can exchange ideas with other course participants. If you’ve not used a Padlet before, you can watch our short video.