“Dreams have no Gender” is a collaborative project designed to focus on gender issues and stereotypes. Boys and girls are constantly bombarded by stereotypical images. They are expected to adopt, believe in, and fulfill specific gender roles and stereotypes that have been established.
Boys are expected to demonstrate certain characteristics and behaviours that are “masculine”, while girls are held accountable for being “feminine”. This project challenges these ingrained ideas and images. It aims to raise awareness and to encourage students to question gender stereotypes, to think critically and to break down barriers. They will collaborate with their peers creatively producing their own material and learning in a less formative, more playful way.
This project aims to build gender awareness and to make students recognize that every individual is unique and complex. In addition to that, the students will have the chance to use different web 2.0 tools throughout the modules of the project. Developing critical thinking as well as acquiring teamwork skills are also two important goals of the project. Finally, by communicating with their partners in English, students will enhance their speaking skills.
In the project “Dreams have no gender” students will work their way through the activities designed by the founders both creatively as well as critically.
In the first module, NICE TO MEET YOU, the aim of the activities designed is basically to help students communicate and get to know each other. It also aims at finding whether we are biassed when it comes to stereotypes related to genders. They well create word clouds presenting their likes and dislikes, their hobbies, their personalities. The other country will try to guess whether they are boys or girls.
NB: The French teacher being a substitute had to change group during the project, son other activities were created for the new group of pupils; time capsule and Chinese portraits/
Pupils will also create a map to show where they live and they will present their schools.
In the second module, Key words to Gender equality, students will be asked to work on a google doc in order to create a glossary with definitions and examples of certain terms that are related to gender equality and students should know about. French-Greek teams will then be created. each team will be in charge of some words. Pupils will discuss in the forum to know who will be in charge of the definition, the example and the illustration. Then they'll put their work on OURBOOK.They will then play a gender quiz created by partners.
It will be Christmas time so we are going to create a postcard on Draw it and an acrostic about Christmas.
In the third module, Out of the stereotype box, the students will complete the "Act Like a Man" padlet and the "Be ladylike" padlet writing specific acts or adjectives for example "men never cry" or "don't run like a girl". Then teams will be created, gathering French and Greek pupils. They will discuss on tricider what stereotype they want to work on. Then they will go on meetingwords to create a dialogue where they will show someone expressing stereotype, then the others will make them change their mind. The dialogue will be acted and filmed in each country.
In the fourth module, The Power of Music, students will create their own version of Frank Sinatra's song, LOVE, to promote equity between genders. They will then record their version of the song and post it on the twinspace.
Evaluation: pupils will be given a google form to fill in.
The final product will be a public twinspace.