Youth work de-constructing gender roles
Start date: Jun 17, 2014,
End date: Jan 16, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The training course is designed for twenty-seven youth leaders, youth workers and educators to exchange best practices and develop learning competences aimed at mainstreaming gender in youth work.
Through Human Rights Education and Non-Formal Education methodologies, the course aims to:
- Explore how gender roles are constructed and the imposition of “normality” for masculities and feminities in diverse communities around Europe;
- Introduce Human Rights Education methodologies and implement approaches and activities that support the role of youth work in this area;
- Contribute actively to de-construct sexist attitudes through youth work tools that challenge predetermined gender roles,
- Exchange best practices, raise awareness and develop competences in key concepts for mainstreaming gender in youth work;
- Develop ideas for incorporating gender perspectives in youth work and at community level,
- and, To introduce and promote the qualitative development of the activities of the new programme for youth in the frames of the Erasmus+ programme.
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