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Women's Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-ES01-KA201-083060
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 361,755 EUR

Women's Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity

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The Conselleria de Educación, Cultura y Deporte aims, with this project based on cross-border regional cooperation, to develop educational policies with a European projection, derived from initiatives of the Plan Director de Coeducación (PDC) of the Valencian Community. One of the most relevant aspects of this PDC is the need for the inclusion of women in educational content.Women are not part of the worldview that is forged in the education system. The marked absence of female references in textbooks –only a 7.6% of female presence, according to the study carried out at the University of Valencia on Spanish schoolbooks– constitutes one of the most active mechanisms of social delegitimization of women. Those who are not recognized for their cultural contributions are not granted social value and, therefore, are denied their role as active subjects in culture and history. This androcentric culture that is transmitted from the education system is one of the structural bases of social gender inequalities. The implications of this absence of women in textbooks are, on the one hand, cultural, because much of the common cultural heritage is hidden, and on the other hand, social, because the lack of recognition of female contributions to culture condemns them to social irrelevance. This favours discrimination such as gender violence or the glass ceiling. Finally, the implications are also educational, because there is a deficiency in the cultural transmission and there is no education in equal opportunities. This situation is similar in all European countries.This project arises as a European response to that common need, and its main goal is to offer instruments of educational intervention that serve to recover the forgotten European cultural heritage of female authorship and also to correct the androcentric vision of the culture transmitted in education. For that purpose, 5 Intellectual Outputs will be developed:-A database with female references, their works and activities ready to be used in the classroom, organized by subject and level.-Three catalogues with works of female authorship: an art, a music, and a literature catalogue.-The teacher training course about Women in STEM, to include scientist women in the classroom. This workshop will be taught to secondary school teachers and training advisers.The database and the three catalogues will be online, open and free, at the service of teachers and educational publishers.The participating partners (Italy, Lithuania, Scotland and Spain) will play a role at all educational levels that require intervention within the educational system: training not only at university, but also for secondary school teachers and for educational advisors, as well as a direct intervention in the secondary school classroom. Each partner will focus on their area of expertise and influence:Conselleria, Glasgow City Council, Innovazione e Apprendimento Lavoro (IAL) and Escola de Formació Melchor Botella (ESFMB) will develop and offer the training for secondary school teachers and advisers. IAL and ESFMB will expand it through their national territory.University of Valencia and University of Vilnius will participate in the training of university students and teachers, specially from the Education Master’s degree. Women's Legacy association (LdM) will develop the contents of the database. Both high schools (Einaudi, in Italy, and Benicalap, in Spain) will participate in the educational development of the database and its piloting. Several high schools from Italy and Spain as well as the Valencia City Council will collaborate as associate members. Educational publishers such as SM and Bromera are interested in the production of educational content based in the database, which provides a high impact to the project. All of this increases the repercussion and settles the sustainability and continuity of the project.The 5 products have great transferability: the database, to other languages and educational systems; the catalogues, to the field of cultural public policies; and the training course, to other subjects. The maintenance and expansion of the base and catalogues will be coordinated, and the STEM training will be offered every year. We hope that this will lead to an improvement in educational policies and will reinforce Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5 and 10, related to gender equality and education improvements. An adequate dissemination plan will be implemented in the four European countries. It would be a true social achievement to reverse this situation, recognize the leading role of women in culture and recover that cultural legacy.It is hoped to obtain a high impact because the database and the catalogues are efficient and enduring instruments for making women's references visible, correcting inequalities and recovering the cultural and scientific heritage of women in Europe.

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