Persona Dolls
The Persona Doll approach encourages inclusion and participation as well as the celebration of diversity and challenges to inequality and discrimination.
Persona dolls and their stories are a practical and enjoyable way to celebrate diversity, help children develop a positive attitude to differences and challenge stereotypes and prejudices
The dolls visit ‘Talking Time’ and help children with thinking about the following with their key person and peers.
- fairness and equality
- discrimination and stereotypes
- communication and listening skills
- self esteem
- empathy, critical thinking, and problem solving
It involves telling stories using a ‘special’ Persona Doll. Through creating a lifelike persona for the doll, it becomes like another child. We have four Persona dolls they can be seen below