AHEAD has submitted the project “Re-Thinking Masculinities” aimed at educators and youth workers with the main objective is the development of competences and the exchange of best practices aimed at mainstreaming gender in youth work.
The current proposal is the direct follow up of initiatives developed previous years by the Association of Human Rights Educators and its partners on the frames of the youth work mainstreaming gender. On these previous experiences it became obvious that it was essential to provide tools, guidelines and methodological proposals to incorporate young male into gender equality youth work.
This proposal responds to the ongoing follow up of these activities.
Through using human rights education and non-formal education methodological approaches, the course specific objectives are:
– To explore how gender roles are constructed and how social conventions impose specific norms for masculinities and femininities in diverse communities.
– To introduce gender mainstreaming methodologies and implement approaches and activities that support the role of youth work actively contributing to de-construct sexist attitudes.
– To develop youth work tools and ideas for incorporating gender mainstreaming specially addressing youth work with boys and young male at community level mainstreaming gender in youth work at the community level;
As concrete results of this mobility we expect to train twenty five Euro-Mediterranean facilitators, the creation of guidelines and of educational tools (modules based on the principles of non-formal education) in order to enhance the participation of young men in the deconstruction of gender roles and sexist attitudes.