Stéréotypes de genre et orientation professionnelle Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stéréotypes de genre et orientation professionnelle

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

This project was based on a common acknowledgment in the three involved schools : pupils’ vocational choices are widely influenced by their stereotypes about male and female social duties and skills. Many of them think that there are jobs for men and jobs for women : male would fit jobs with logical and technical skills ; female would fit jobs with psychological skills, sensibility, care for others. That is why most of male pupils choose first scientifical and technical trainings, and females choose artistic, health or social trainings. These choices have serious consequences on career advancement : males will reach a well-paid job with responsability, though females will get badly-paid, insecure and junior job, without promotion possibility.

The main goals of this project are
– to limit the effects of gender stereotypes on vocational choices by making pupils aware that jobs can be both for male or female and get equality and mixity in the different trainings.
– to make pupils aware of the gender stereotypes in their daily life and their representations in workplaces.
– to improve skills in English
– to improve digital skills
– to improve oral skills
– to improve skills in collaborative works
– to deepen knowledges about Europe and partners’way of live

Activities

Teachers from partner schools organized, prepared and wrote together teaching documents in English and native langages, including descriptions of activities for teachers and instructions for learners. All these documents are available on the project web site www.createyourownway.fr

Learners’ activities are shared and organized according three skills : oral communication (shows, accounts), writing communication (accounts, analysis), pictures creations (exhibitions, posters). Most of them needed digital skills.

Results :

The results are available on the project website, in English or native language with a summary in English.

Teachers’ results :
– project logo and slogan
– website to load teaching documents and pupils’works
– descriptions of activities in English and native languages (French, Italian, Polish)
– instructions for learners’ activities ( English and native langages)
– assessment grids (for learners and teachers)

Learners’results :
– survey results (charts) with comments
– exhibitions
– studies of novels and paintings
– studies of schoolbooks
– shows
– pictures creations : advertisements, photographs
– course observation reports
– reports of company visits

Impacts :

– taking in account gender stereotypes in teaching practise
– Using teaching documents available for teachers in and out of the partners schools
– loading new teaching documents and pupils’ works on the website
– increasing mixity in vocational choices

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 116735 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jules-Ferry & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IIS Rolando da Piazzola
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 3 im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego w Koszalinie