Implementation period: February 2021 – January 2023
Project activities:
1. Research on the current status of gender sensitive education and caring masculinities in early education including interviews and focus groups with staff from Kindergartens, primary schools and experts.
2. Development of gender sensitive material focusing on caring masculinities and gender sensitive education and self-reflection.
3. Capacity building trainings for pedagogical staff working in early education and development of a digital self-learning platform.
4. Elaboration of a manual, which will integrate best-practice examples, results of the analysis, training course modules, tools & methods and also gender sensitive material in working with children.
5. Recommendations to strengthen caring masculinities in early education for pedagogical staff, parents, policy makers and the public.
6. National and transnational reports on the state of the art of gender sensitive early education with the focus on caring masculinities.
7. Awareness raising activities.
Project coordinator:
- Dissens Institut für Bildung und Forschung e.V. (Germany)
Project partners:
- Verein für Männer- und Geschlechterthemen Steiermark (Austria)
- The Peace Institute (Slovenia)
- Instituto degli Innocenti (Italy)
- Center of Women’s Studies and Policies (Bulgaria)
The project is funded by:
