Communities

The fifth theme is Community, as the school is part of and needs to engage with the wider community. Family engagement is crucial to get parents and carers to understand why the school’s work on gender equality is important and how they can support it. It is also important that the prior and post educational settings are aware of the need to ensure gender equality at all ages and stages.

Does your school involve families and the local community when addressing GE?

Initial Steps

  • Why not start by researching family engagement on GE issues? Has there been any engagement? What was done?
  • Encourage/start discussions with colleagues on how to deal with parents’ gender ideas, stereotypes etc.
  • Try to think of ways to involve students to discuss issues relating to GE in the wider community in a safe and sensitive manner.

Call to action

Do you have any ideas/examples of good practice on family/community engagement on GE issues, which you can share?

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Curriculum Links

FLATLAND: Mathematical fiction on gender stereotypes

Communities

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 mathematical fiction of Flatland

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

A case study from Italy: involving families and the wider school community for an entire year in gender equality issues

Communities

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

Tolerance Day

Communities

Type of materialtext, photos