Who is it aimed at?

Images is designed to be applied within the context of primary and early childhood education. It targets both teachers and pupils in order to be able to accurately assess the facilitation of gender integration from both a school structural and interpersonal and cultural perspective.

What are Images’ goals?

To strengthen cultural and infrastructural tools to promote gender integration in society, starting with primary education.

Specifically, Images aims to:

⁃ Improve teachers’ ability to think from a gender education perspective;

⁃ Learn to recognize the principles of stereotypes and prejudices, to nip them in the bud;

⁃ Eliminate inherent gender discrimination through the proper use of verbal and nonverbal communication;

⁃ Collect, analyze and evaluate learning outcomes during the stages of the process;

⁃ Raise awareness of gender inequality in the context.

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Method Research Action Participation (PAR)

PAR is chosen as a collaborative, reflective, experiential and participatory intervention framework capable of engaging individuals as actors and actresses who are protagonists of change, achievable only through collective reasoning and without imposition or passive learning of any kind.

Use of images

Using images is conducive to keeping the rate of cerebral and participatory activation high on the part of the person involved. The stimulation provided by the Images project ranges between the emotional and cognitive planes, with the ultimate goal of learning good practices in gender integration.

Photographic and art therapy techniques are framed as supportive elements to strengthen the resources available to and for teachers, helping them to interpret children’s and girls’ thinking.

Images model

The Images model is presented as multipurpose and dynamic, capable of adapting to any school context.

It provides for an initial training of the teaching staff, in which they will obtain the necessary support material to structure the work to be carried out with pupils.

The activities included in the Images project are intended as suggested but not rigid best practices, capable of being readapted to the specifics of each context in which they will operate.