The Gender-responsive School: An Action GuideThe Gender-Responsive School shows teachers, principals and school administrators how to spot the key spaces in school life where gender is important. It gives them tools to promote gender equality by changing attitudes and ideas among staff and students. This action guide is full of activities that can be undertaken at either the individual or group level and is based on trials with teachers in a wide range of countries with different cultures, educational systems, and attitudes towards gender issues. It shows how important school is, especially at the post-primary stage, in forming our ideas about gender roles. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
Acknowledgements | 9 |
UNIT 1 The basics | 18 |
UNIT 2 The wider context | 52 |
National factors | 64 |
factors? | 78 |
UNIT 3 A whole school approach | 80 |
UNIT 4 Teaching and learning | 142 |
UNIT 5 Approaches and methods | 208 |
Action plan and reflection | 250 |
APPENDIX II Trialling workshop for southern | 261 |
The guide would not have been | 269 |
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2.2 The national 3.1 School ethos 5.1 Action research 5.2 Gender analysis achievement Action Guide action plan action research project ACTIVITY Approaches and methods attitudes basics behaviour Blu-tack boys and girls challenges Change management Commonwealth Secretariat countries discussions eve teasing example experiences factors focus group gender action GENDER ANALYSIS STUDY gender equality gender issues gender roles gender-blind girls and boys help or hinder ideas Identify important India LCD Projector learning for change Look Malaysia monitoring Mozambique national education context Nigeria organisation Oxfam Pakistan parents participation practice problem programme questions reading reflect responsible roles Samoa school gender policy secondary schools session SEYCHELLES ACTION PROJECT Teaching and learning textbooks thermochemistry Topic 3.1 School Topic 4.4 Underachievements Topic 4.5 Teaching Topic 5.1 Action Topic 5.2 Gender topic will help Trinidad and Tobago UNESCO Unit 4 Teaching Unit 5 Approaches whole school approach wider community wider context women