You belong to the group of garment workers in Bangladesh. What you want, is to keep your job, but also to achieve safer and overall better working conditions for yourself and your fellow workers.
Prepare for the discussion! Check your homework for the best arguments to use as a garment worker. Compare and consider your strongest points with your fellow workers!
- What do you want?
- How can you justify your interests?
- How can you justify negelcting others‘ interests?
- How does your background information support your arguments?
You belong to the group of CEO's (chief executive officer). What you want, is your company to produce as cheap as possible. Also, you do not want any scandal around your brand, so somehow you are interested in the safety of the workers. Your task is
however, to gain the biggest profit for the company.
Prepare for the discussion! Check your homework for the best arguments on the company side. Compare and consider your strongest points with other CEO's!
- What do you want?
- How can you justify your interests?
- How can you justify negelcting others‘ interests?
- How does your background information support your arguments?
You belong to the group of consumers in Europe. What you want, is cheap but good-quality clothing. However, you know that the working conditions in the garment industry are not the best. Still, you try to block this out whenever you go shopping for clothes.
Prepare for the discussion! Check your homework for the best arguments on the consumer side. Compare and consider your strongest points with other shopping lovers!
- What do you want?
- How can you justify your interests?
- How can you justify negelcting others‘ interests?
- How does your background information support your arguments?
You belong to the group of activists in Bangladesh and all over the world. What you want is to be able to go shopping without feeling guilty. Thus, you want nice clothing without the garment workers having to work in such bad conditions. You definitely think that
people should care more and take action.
Prepare for the discussion! Check your homework for the best arguments on the activist side. Compare and consider your strongest points with other activists!
- What do you want?
- How can you justify your interests?
- How can you justify negelcting others‘ interests?
- How does your background information support your arguments?
You are the moderator that leads the discussion. Your task is to introduce the topic and provide the statement that is the starting point of the discussion. During the discussion you need to give the word to the different parties. Try and make the amount of their
speaking time as equal as possible. Also, if the conversation gets too calm too quickly, address people/parties directly and ask them to give their opinions.
Prepare for the discussion by noting down useful phrases for the moderation. Also, prepare the short introduction and questions on the topic that you can ask if needed.
- What do the different parties want?
- How can they justify their interests?
- How can they justify negelcting others‘ interests?
- How does their background information support their arguments?
