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Odisha Introduces Gender Equity Curriculum Program in Govt Schools
The School Education Department signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal), South Asia, and the Women's Rights organization Breakthrough in Bhubaneswar on Monday. A gender equity curriculum will be consolidated into the syllabus for students across government schools in Odisha in order to transform their aspirations, attitudes, and behavior.
by Pragti Sharma / 09 Aug 2022 19:45 PM IST / 0 Comment(s) / 266
A gender equity curriculum will be consolidated into the syllabus for students across government schools in Odisha in order to transform their aspirations, attitudes, and behavior. The School Education Department signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal), South Asia, and the Women's Rights organization Breakthrough in Bhubaneswar on Monday.
According to an official release, the curriculum utilizes interactive classroom discussions to encourage adolescent girls and boys to recollect the culturally-embedded gender norms, roles, and discriminatory practices. By August, it will be blended into the social studies syllabus for girls and boys of classes 6th to 10th over 18,000 elementary and 5,000 secondary schools.
Shobhini Mukherji, executive director of J-Pal South Asia, stated that adolescence presents an essential window of opportunity to transform even deeply-rooted norms and invest in more progressive gender attitudes. Breakthrough will work with the department to investigate and intermix the curriculum into the syllabus, train teachers, receive feedback, conduct workshops, and engage parents in the process.
J-Pal will organize independent monitoring activities to assure that the program achieves its purpose in order to develop insights for sustained, high-quality government execution of the syllabus. Samir Dash, School Education Minister, said that Gender Equality of essential, and they are working on it.
The program expects developments, such as positive gender attitudes, parents investing in education for daughters, enhanced sex ratio, and more labor force participation by women.
Sohini Bhattacharya, Breakthrough chief executive officer, spoke about the aim of the program and stated that the project/program focuses on assuring that girls have options and choices for their education and work participation, retention of girls in schools for more number years, and decline dropouts, and increase in age of marriage and first childbirth. She underlined that gender perceptions get formed at a young age. Sohini added that we have to ensure that children, especially those between 10-15 years, have access to true-to-life information connected to gender equality, legal rights, and healthy gender behaviors.
Bishnupada Sethi from the school education secretary department commented that The Gender Equity Programme would help achieve the state's sustainable development goals (SDG) of quality education and gender equality. The program will contain wide-ranging topics that will be covered in schools as part of the program to build a gender-equal world.
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