Slide Power • • • • • • is: The ability to get one’s expected activity carried out successfully or the ability to take a decision. The ability to win the expected objective / aim / result. The ability to make influence successfully on a decision taken by or an activity done by some other person. The ability to participate in the process of dividing resources / make influence in that regard / obtain resources. The ability to participate actively at all decision making levels in the family or common institutions. Next assign to each group a character which demonstrates a method of applying power (Use the Role play below) Role play Characters of using power. Character 1 - Badra is 43 years old mother of 3. She is a nurse. Her husband is employed and comes home once in three months. The servant does domestic work from Monday – Friday. She takes leave at weekends. Badra has to work at the hospital at weekends once a month. But she helps the school work of her children at night. Older children (14 & 16) does domestic work such as cleaning, watering the plants and etc., She gives rewards for such work. At weekends she asked her elder son to look after the younger one (9) and promised him a pair of shoes. Badra relates stories to the youngest child until he sleeps in order to avoid the studies of the other two children being disturbed. Character 2 - Chandani is 38. Her husband died 4 years ago. She left her 9 month old child with her parents and went to the town to work as a housemaid. She comes to her parent’s house only once a month and gives money to parents to look after the child. As she has worked in that house for 3½ years honestly the owners of the house treats her well. The 3 year old child in that house, Chamika, is very close to her. One day, Chandani got to know that her child fell terribly ill. Even though the members of the House, in specially Chamika found it difficult to manage without Chandani, she went to see her child. Character 3 - Vinitha is 53 years old and is a principal of a girl’s school. She had to select a teacher for a very important one month training. The training is outside the school area and is during the vacation. Three senior teachers in the school apply for this. The principal decides to select one at an interview. The senior most teacher tells that he will apply for a transfer to a national school after the training. The junior teacher says that he plans to apply the knowledge of the training at the school. The principal selects the junior teacher. 40