Are the gender stereotypes determining an in-egalitarian society? Erasmus Project

Project Title

Are the gender stereotypes determining an in-egalitarian society?

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In our societies gender stereotypes surround us from childhood to adulthood. They are usually unnoticed but condition the behavior, work, professional, family and personal expectations of men and women.
All the countries have in common the maintenance of a patriarchal society. These, generate social inequality and gender violence.
In all our countries inequality still exist between men and women: women have more difficulties in gaining access to socially relevant positions, shameful numbers of battered women…There is still much work to be done to achieve an egalitarian society.

Objectives:
– Collaborate and cooperate to compare different mentalities and approaches to prejudices and gender inequality.
– Students, specially boys, should learn to recognize, express and manage their emotions and feelings
– Change gender stereotypes students’ attitude.
– Foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences. Final objective: reduce gender violence
– To achieve a future free of gender differences, looking for good practices’ exchange
– Improve foreign languages skills both for teachers and students
– Improve the use of ICT in classes and use it in a collaborative way
– Share good teaching and learning practices promoting a cooperative way of working
-Help students with an economic and cultural background disadvantage to be included in an international project

Participants:

1. Romania: Vasile Lovinescu College is a Vocational Education and Training (VET) high-school situated in North-Eastern part of Romania, Suceava Region, Falticeni town. We have 1784 students, educated and professionally trained by 114 teaching staff members. The College provides professional training in the technological branch,
2. Italy: ITE Paolo Savi is a secondary education general school (technical and economic), including tourism and administration, finance and marketing and international relations for marketing.
3. Spain (coordinator): IES LLoixa is a secondary, baccalaureate education school including administration and finance vocational training. The staff consists of 59 teachers. we have 650 students who come from the town of S. Joan.
4. Turkey: Muğla Provincial Directorate of National Education is one of the Provincial National Education Directorates which is established to plan, program, manage, supervise, develop and evaluate the provincial level tasks of the Ministry of National Education.
5. France: ISSEC PIGIER school

Activities:
.Elaboration of survey: this will be pass to students before and after the project
.Search for gender sterotypes and discrimination in all scopes
.Search for absence of women in public scope.
.Search for the “romantic love’s myth”
.Search of feminist organizations that work in every country in defense of equality
.Search of historical or current differences in civil, criminal, family law from women and men
.workshops for students and teachers about gender stereotypes and gender violence
.writing and recording documentaries or any other format film, showing students conclusions and thoughts
.celebrate the following dates: November 25th, march 8th, May 13th, with different activities
.International meetings with students and teachers

Methodology:
the nature of our project required a holistic and active methodology. In other words, our students will work using a methodology of investigation-action. We will work in an interdisciplinary way around focus of interest.

Description of results.

– Short films or documentals produced by students
– Catalogue of anti-sterotype phrases
– Vocabulary for equality education: Dictionary for equality and Good practices book
– Feminist organization dossier
– Final report

Impacts

1. Be able to see gender prejudices and stereotypes.
2. Be able to seek more equalitarian and equitable interpersonal relationships. Foster values such as, empathy, sisterhood and, consequently, European and universal common values.
3. Be able to see and suppress the sexist linguistic uses.
4. Improve the communicative competence in a foreign language.
5. Learn and give students tools to work to work in the most egalitarian way possible, for example, the visibility of women and the rule of change/replacement.
6. Our project could be useful for both local schools, and authorities.
7. We will diseminate the project’s results using newspapers, magazines, local radio stations.
8. Our blog will be uplowded to national an european platforms and also linked to feminist association and equality education websites.

Long-term goals: Future societies will think in both men and women as individuals, without gender, sex or sexual tendency labels. A real democracy, will be its ethical and political framework. The current youth, will be their protagonists

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46680 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES LLOIXA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ITE P.Savi
• ISSEC PIGIER (ADMINISTRATION AND ACOUNTING TECHNICAL SCHOOL)Institut Spécialisé de Secrétariat et d’Etudes Comptables
• MUGLA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• COLEGIUL VASILE LOVINESCU