cc- wise – content and structure of a unit gender issues in the street names
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Gender Issues in the Street Names
• Motivation of the suggested Unit’s content and structure – WHY?
- to create cohesion in the book- to invest the intercultural element
in the very process of writing- “Our reality” in a more concrete
way- To suggest certain methodological
solutions – the social constructivism
The “lesson” – general content
- 3-5 pages- The act of naming - The “policy” of
representation in everyday life
- Gender and power - Gender and economics
The “lesson” – general content
- Gender in the exchange of “symbolic capital”
- Stability and change - Gender equality/tolerance to the
differentWHY?The names of the streets >>concepts,
ideas >> values, life pictureHow?- How abstract?- How concrete?- Examples ?
The rubrics – titles provisional
- Points of view- Facts sheet- Streets as inspiration- Activities- Dictionary
Content of the rubrics
• Points of view…- Interesting and relevant to the
topic findings- The findings and experience of
the school projects invested- Not necessary from all project
countries in each unit vs. certain balance within the whole book – TR, SP for example
- 5-10 sentences each
Fact Sheets
- focus: both on the streets and the topic in question
- Not necessary restricted to the partner’s countries
- Like: - The struggle for women’s right
to vote- “The Women’s market” in Sofia
and the like- Data for the average salary - 5-10 sentences each
The streets as inspiration
- A favorite but very difficult rubric
- Quotations like: -Say, “To the one passing by” –
Baudelaire - etc. etc.- Or philosophers, or proverbs- Translations?????- Pictures/reproduction or the
story of a famous picture
Activities
-10-15 itemsTypes:- Opened questions- Essay assignments- Projects – group and individual work- Journalist investigation/photo reportage
Assignments and exercises
Examples:1. Ask your pupils to interpret the under
representation of the women in the names of the streets?
2. Which streets in the city/village/district your pupils live bear the names of a woman? Let them investigate in the biographies of these women and present them to the class.
3. Assign to students to make a map of their city/village. Trace the presence of women in it (group project).
4. Let them make a photo reportage for the presence of the women on the streets (individual or group assignment)
etc.
Dictionary
- Gender – a socio cultural concept
- Gender equality- Feminization- Feminism- The Other- “Symbolic capital” ???