Mexico – Gender Equality Curriculum First Time Inclusion in All Schools in State of Mexico
Author: Administrator
Date: September 4, 2022
MEXICO – UNESCO RECOGNIZES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER EQUALITY IN EDOMÉX SCHOOLS
For the first time in the country and with UNESCO, a gender equality curriculum is incorporated in all schools from preschool to high school in one entity: the State of Mexico.
Mexico City; August 19, 2022.- A statement, the Office in Mexico of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized the State of Mexico for its initiative to implement the subject of Gender Equality in all schools of basic and upper secondary education. The above as part of the Curricular Strategy on Gender Equality from this school year 2022-2023, and which was presented by Governor Alfredo del Mazo Maza in Chimalhuacán.
It should be noted that the initiative, the only one of its kind at the national level, generates a curricular proposal of Gender Equality and free books specially developed for students and teachers from this 2022-2023 school year.
The UNESCO Office in Mexico indicated that it will follow up on the implementation with authorities, families, teachers, teachers, students and educational communities.
With the technical advice of UNESCO, the Mexican entity will implement this strategy so that children and adolescents from primary to upper secondary education develop skills to build equitable relationships, free of violence and discrimination, and make informed, free and informed decisions.
The UNESCO Office in Mexico has worked with the Ministry of Education of the State of Mexico since 2021, accompanying the process of developing the Strategy and during this year has collaborated in the elaboration of contents for the books for teachers and students that will be distributed free of charge by the state government. In the coming months he will continue to participate in the design of didactic sequences that significantly impact social and cultural practices from primary to high school,” UNESCO said.
In fact, the curricular contents were built from the axes of Gender Equality, Human Rights and Culture of Peace, and has basic concepts and critical reflection of everyday situations so that both students and teachers recognize gender equality as a human right, understand the way in which gender stereotypes promote inequality, distinguish, prevent and address behaviours associated with gender-based violence and discrimination.
In the words of the Governor of the State of Mexico, Alfredo del Mazo Maza, the Curricular Strategy on Gender Equality “seeks a cultural change in favor of equality from the first years of educational training, which contributes to eradicating gender stereotypes, inequalities, violence and conditions that put limits on the development of people, especially women.”
The learning contents of the Strategy make it unique in the country, since it starts from real situations from the local context and with the global orientation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations, includes both the socio-emotional and cognitive dimensions, and has a comprehensive vision of the educational system considering teaching in the classroom, the plans, programmes, materials and educational environments, the educational practice of teachers, to impact future learning opportunities throughout people’s lives,” said Rosa Wolpert, UNESCO Education Officer in Mexico.
Unesco also recognized that this strategy contributes to promoting a perspective based on dignity, equality and diversity as part of the exercise of human rights, to establish relations free of violence, eliminate discrimination in all its forms and promote a dialogue that allows a culture of peace.
It is not only to have a series of guidelines, content and knowledge, but it seeks that they can really be integrated into the values, attitudes and behaviors of each of the children of the State of Mexico, “said Rosa Wolpert.
The books of the Government of the State of Mexico and UNESCO on gender equality for teachers are now available for free download through the following links:
With information from UNESCO.
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