This document discusses gender issues in education. It outlines how gender is a social construct that impacts roles and behaviors. It also discusses how gender bias exists in school enrollments, dropouts, access to education, literacy rates, schooling availability, and teaching methods. Barriers to girls' education include poverty, lack of female teachers, sexual harassment, and social attitudes that girls will join another family after marriage. The document calls for achieving gender equality and addressing gender bias.

1. GENDER ISSUES IN
EDUCATION

2. GENDER
• Gender is a social construct that impacts
attitudes, roles and responsibilities and
behavior patterns of boys and girls, men and
women.

3. • Increasing attention has been given to the
importance of achieving gender equality in
education.

4. GENDER BIAS
• Gender bias is preference toward one gender
over the other.
• Gender bias occurs when people make
assumptions regarding behaviors, abilities of
others based upon their gender.

5. Gender bias in school enrollments
• Boys have to do work rather than attend
school.
• Financial responsibilities.

6. Gender bias in dropouts
• The social barriers standing in the way of girls
attending schools.
1) Poverty
2) Misconceptions
3) limited benefits in educating girls.
4) lack of women teachers.
5) Supportive facilities.

7. Social attitudes towards girls
education
• After marriage girls are part of another family.
so educating girls are not necessary.
• Two types of parental and social attitude.
1) Perfect altruistic
2) perfect capitalistic

8. Unequal access to education
• Literacy
• Schooling
• Violence against women
• Disabled girls
• school availability

9. LITERACY
• Female literacy rate is lower than male
literacy rate.
• compared to boys far fewer girls are enrolled
in the school and many of them are drop out.
• low level of education significantly affect the
health and nutritional status of women.

10. SCHOOLING
• In rural regions girls continue to be less
educated than boys.
• chief barriers to female education are
inadequate school facilities.
• Shortage of female teachers.
• gender bias in curriculum.

11. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
• sexual harassment and violence also
continue to be major factors preventing girls
education.
• sexual abuse

12. Gender concerns in education

13. SCHOOL AVAILABILITY
• unable to access primary education within
1km and upper primary school is not
available with in 3km.

14. Text book and gender
• books attempt to mirror social realities.
• addresses contributions of men and women
in adequate manner.
• it reflect heterogeneous identities of gaps in
an inclusive manner.

15. Teaching and learning
• The methodology followed in delivering
content related to various domains of
knowledge not only promotes learning and
understanding of but also overall personality
of children.

16. HIDDEN CURRICULUM
• related to transmission of norms, values beliefs
existing social and cultural ethos of society.
• Activities
1) Use of language
2) body language
3) touch
4) eye contact
5) gestures
6) addressing physical and emotional conflicts

17. CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION AND
MANAGEMENT
• promote healthy relationship between boys
and girls.
• equal participation
• the classroom culture should built in a
manner that interactions between boys and
girls reflect mutual respect.
• use visual aids like women working in fields
along with men.

19. CULTURAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
• Issues refers to the conflicts,
misinterpretations that take place in the
classroom.
• Culture is a broad comprehensive concept
that includes all the way of being.
• several components - values , behavior
styles, language and dialects, non verbal
communications etc..

20. Individuals, groups, and the surrounding
environment are always changing.
• in every culture sub groups may form.
Subgroups can differ by any of the
components of culture ,including ethnicity,
language, class, religion and geography.

21. • All students are culturally diverse regardless of
their ethnicity, race or socio economic status.
• multicultural and multilingual classrooms have
become the norm in many educational settings
due to changing immigration patterns caused by
globalization.
• analyzing cultural issues can shed light on some
of the unconscious process that shape
individuals perception of reality as well as
patterns of interaction.

22. • The analysis of cultural issues may benefit
teachers as well as learners by raising awareness
of the hidden cultural assumptions and biases
that they bring to the class room.
• In order to educate the future generations of our
society effectively ,the education system must
be successful teaching all children to
communicate and interact with people from
different backgrounds and different abilities.

23. • Educators must find ways to offer an
excellent education to all students regardless
of their backgrounds.
• for culturally and linguistically diverse
students, issues of diversity, difference and
disability can be quite complex and
challenging for classroom teachers.

24. • Understanding the role that culture plays in the
classroom is essential to effective teaching,
learning and communicative interaction in
general.
• designing programs for diverse audience is not
an easy process. It involves linguistic translation
although language is important.
• more over programs must be designed to be
sustainable within the communities they seek to
involve.