Attitudes and Relationships
Is your school’s staff aware of their gender-sensitive language or of their own gender bias in expectations of student behaviour?
Initial Steps
- To start with why don’t you devise ways of assessing staff and student awareness of GE?
- Encourage staff to discuss issues around gender and behaviour and peer socialisation. What issues arise from these discussions?
- Propose ways for staff and students to discuss issues related to gender-based violence (GBV) and assess the extent to which they recognise GBV and bullying, including support mechanisms and reporting procedures.
Call to action
Have you come across positive examples of gender-sensitive attitudes and relationships in schools?
Why not try to involve teachers to develop a gender inclusive and anti-sexist language guide for your school?
Please share your ideas, findings and/or results.

Curriculum Links
Playing Math with Alice in Wonderland
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age group9-12 years old (primary school)
Gender equality concepts
Discuss gender roles and stereotypes as a social construction in an interdisciplinary framework using the story of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Challenging perceptions of gender
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age group8-14
Gender equality concepts
Gender stereotypes
Dismantling the media. A critical analysis of gender in media messages
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age group13-18
Gender equality concepts
sexism, social norms concerning gender, heteronormativity
Gender behaviour
Attitudes & Relationships, Peer socialisation
Target age group12 - 18
Gender equality concepts
Gender behaviour
Gender stereotypes and prejudices
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age group11-18
Gender equality concepts
Gender stereotypes and prejudices
This Lesson Plan looks at the differences between gender and sex and then examines how gender stereotypes and prejudices are generated and can be challenged.
Harassment – Boys Talk
Attitudes & Relationships, Gender-based violence
Target age group13-18
Gender equality concepts
Harassment, peer pressure
This Lesson Plan looks at developing understanding of what is meant by harassment and goes on to look at how sexist language can undermine respect for women.
Love is not violence
Attitudes & Relationships, Gender-based violence
Target age groupstudents from 15 to 25 years
Gender equality concepts
Using authentic testimony over documentary evidence captures the essence of gender-conditional violence, a cycle, consequences and forms of violence and possible solutions.
Similarities and differences
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age groupPrimary school
Gender equality concepts
Understanding others’ preferences, interpersonal social skills
Why is it good to be a girl or a boy?
Attitudes & Relationships, Peer socialisation
Target age groupPrimary school
Gender equality concepts
Gender awareness, supporting one another, relationships of power, binary concepts gender
Better together
Attitudes & Relationships, Peer socialisation
Target age group6-12 yrs / group size 8+
Gender equality concepts
similarities go beyond gender differences
Attention, traffic light!
Attitudes & Relationships, Gender-based violence
Target age group6-12 yrs / group size 5-15
Gender equality concepts
gender-based violence
New Music
Attitudes & Relationships, Gender-based violence
Target age group14-18
Gender equality concepts
gender stereotypes, non-violent conflict resolution, gender-based violence
Rethinking Masculinity
Attitudes & Relationships
Target age group11-18
Gender equality concepts
‘Toxic’ masculinity – ‘Tender’ masculinity – ‘Non-tender’ masculinity
This Lesson Plan looks at understanding changing notions of masculinity and the idea that men as well as women may benefit from gender equality.
Robotics and the Gender Problem
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities
Target age group9-12 years old (primary school)
Gender equality concepts
hybrid gender identity, stereotypes, subject choices, mathematics, size and number, infinity, probability
Ideas into Action
Digital platform “500 Queer Scientists”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership, Physical Environment
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
Gender Based Violence at Schools
Attitudes & Relationships, Gender-based violence
Target age groupHigh school students, partially teachers
Type of materialVideo, text
UK Primary School Case Study
Attitudes & Relationships, Physical Environment
Target age groupPrimary 3-11
Type of materialText – account of school practice
Language and Gender Equality
Attitudes & Relationships, Language & communication
Target age groupSecondary 11-19
Type of materialText - narrative
A multimedia digital platform “This is not a feminist project”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
Rainbow Friday
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities
Target age groupThe school community (students, teachers, school management)
Type of materialEvent
Regular re-shuffling of students’ seats in the classroom
Attitudes & Relationships
Target age groupStudents and teachers
Type of materialPractice
Youth in Action for Equality (Vocational School for Commerce and Trade Bjelovar)
Attitudes & Relationships, CM Development, Content, Curriculum, Extra-curricular, Gender-based violence, Hidden curriculum, Language & communication, Leadership, Peer socialisation, Physical Environment
Type of materialText, video, photo story