A group of S1 pupils was deliberately ostracised and discriminated against by staff at a secondary school, in a project designed to show how genocide could occur.<\/span><\/p>\n The 20 Dumbarton Academy pupils, from a cohort of 120, wore yellow bibs for a day, designating that they were inferior and would have fewer rights than their peers.<\/p>\n Some found the day upsetting, but staff, pupils and researchers were united in praising the project, and the school hopes to run it again.<\/p>\n The experiment, based on Jane Elliott’s famous “blue eyes\/brown eyes” experiment of 1968, took place in spring 2009, but came to wider attention at the recent Scottish Educational Research Association annual conference<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to see the full TESS article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yellow bib project shows pupils how genocide could occur. A group of S1 pupils was deliberately ostracised and discriminated against by staff at a secondary school, in a project designed to show how genocide could occur. The 20 Dumbarton Academy pupils, from a cohort of 120, wore yellow bibs for a day, designating that they … Continue reading Drama, Psychology and the Holocaust – risk taking and Curriculum for Excellence<\/span>