Gender in Schools (Otevřená Společnost)

Implementing the concept of Gender into Education

Can schools help promote the notion of equal opportunities of women and men? Yes, they can.

How? By making lessons enhancing pupils' and students' sensitivity to inequality between men and women in society.

What can help change teaching methods? Giving teachers inspiration as to how to innovate the lessons of civics by leaving more room to gender issues. Designing and offering to teachers a handbook of teaching methods that deals with ordinary subjects and topics from the gender perspective.

Our project called Implementing the concept of Gender into Education, shortened Gender in Schools, aims to create the conditions and tools that would help enhance the sensitivity of Czech society to gender issues. The change in perception of the equality between men and women can be efficiently promoted through the education of the youngest generation. Education is provided in a specific environment, currently not much encouraging promotion of the concept of equality between men and women and in enhancing sensitivity to gender issues. Therefore, the project aims to change the environment while building a more solid base in education.

Educational system is a complex institution consisting of many layers; thus the project is made up of three separate parts. Each part covers a separate component of the educational system:

Part 1 - A handbook for the teachers of civics and social sciences. The book aims to encourage teachers to include gender issues into the curriculum of subjects dealing with social issues. 

Part 2 - Teaching materials for students of Pedagogy. The aim is to include gender issues into the training of future teachers.

Part 3 -Promoting changes in institutional and legal framework. This part of the project aims to include gender issues into teaching documents and to promote efficiently gender mainstreaming at the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic.

All three modules are conducted step by step, and the tools and output of each of them support and complement one another.

The project enjoys strong support by experts on gender studies, teachers working at primary and secondary schools, and the Ministry of Education. Cooperation with the gender focal point at the Ministry of Education is of immense importance, she is arranged for the project the inevitable support of the public educational institutions.

Documents

Gender in Schools: Handbook for teachers and students of Faculties of Education

Handbook for everybody who is willing to learn and understand more about the educational system and aspects of stereotypes on gender roles. Particular audience is students from Teachers Colleagues.

The handbook  is available on-line here.

The number of printed copies: 1000

 

Gender in Schools

The handbook called Gender in Schools (Gender ve škole) that we published is available on-line here.

The number of printed copies: 2.500.

The book is sent out to teachers and teaching centres, departments of education at all regional authorities, libraries, faculties of education and other partners.

The book contains the following sections:

1. Gender and science
2. Gender and personality
3. Gender and society
4. Gender and the labour market
5. Gender and politics
6. Gender and law
7. Gender and the media
8. Gender and language
9. Gender and religion
10. Gender and global problems
11. Gender and education
12. Gender and choosing a profession

Thanks for contribution to the book:

PhDr. Blanka Knotková, Ph.D., Ing. Petr Pavlík, Ph.D., PhDr. Jana Valdrová, PhDr. Hana Havelková, CSc., Mgr. Lucie Jarkovská, Mgr. Barbara Havelková, PhDr. Šárka Gjuričová, CSc.

Should you or your school be interested in the book, please make an order at genderveskole@osf.cz.

The Project is funded by

Open Society Fund Prague (www.osf.cz)

The Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Prague (www.fhs.cuni.cz/gender/)