The Gender-Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education (GRP4ECE) Toolkit

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Key Information

The The Gender-Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education (GRP4ECE) Toolkit targets ECE teachers, school leaders, ECE student teachers, ECE teacher trainers, caregivers and any other practitioners who deal with younger children. It is also a useful resource for researchers, school parent committees and governing bodies, civil society organisations, community leaders and education policy makers.  The toolkit offers an introduction to GRP in ECE and serves as a practical guide that can be adapted to any context and the related needs. It is a source of ideas that individual teachers and school leaders can put to immediate use in their classrooms and schools. The toolkit comprises five chapters. The first gives an overview of gender in education in the African context. The sociocultural environment influences teaching and learning. The second chapter, which forms the core of the toolkit, introduces GRP in ECE. It explores how genderresponsiveness in lesson planning, lesson delivery, the teaching and learning environment, learning materials, interactions and use of language can foster real learning. The third chapter focuses on GRP and school leadership, identifying ways to integrate GRP in schools at a more structural level. Chapter four offers some ideas for practical classroom activities for learners, designed to generate opportunities to talk about gender roles and challenge stereotypes in the ECE classroom. The fifth chapter consists of guidelines for an interactive game, called Go Gender Go, for teachers and school leaders.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Rwanda

South Africa

Zambia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 -

Ministry Affiliation

Ministries of Education

Funder(s)

Belgium Power in Development, Flanders State of the Art

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Early childhood development

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Girls in school
  • Other caregivers

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)