Dilemmas in social contexts usually revolve around the apparent needs and desires that people from the same society, but perhaps in different strata, want. The trick is to choose something that is meaningful to the students that are undertaking this.
For instance: older generations feel that there is no respect by the youth of today but the youth feel that the older generations only want to stay ‘stuck in the past’; this does not answer necessarily when a practice or tradition should be adhered to because it has value in helping society to function, or whether it should be cast as irrelevant in today’s modern age. Example – dress code at the workplace.
People with disabilities are often pitied or sympathised with by those who are not disabled, but disabled people feel that the main disability they have is the attitude of the ‘abled’ bodied who pity them. There are certain realities though such as a person in a wheelchair is unlikely to be as effective as a walking running person if they are a firefighter. However, to argue that a person in a wheelchair is not eligible to work in an airport observation tower because there are no ramps to take them too and fro from the normally high observation tower, is really a matter of the aiport authority not wanting to spend money on wheelchair access, rather than capacity to work successfully there.
Some basic ideas using the Two Voice Digital Story Telling to get started:
- Learning about gender (in-)equality. Tell a story from both a woman and a man's perspective.
- Learning about disability. Tell the same story from the perspective of someone who is disabled in some way, and someone who interacts with the disabled person.
- A variation of this is tell of a recurring event from the perspective of somoene that was abled before an accident, and then they become disabled and go to the same recurring (perhaps an annual festival) event.
- Tell a story of watching a significant event from the point of view of a grandparent and then the same event from the point of view of a grandchild.