Gender Equality & the SDGs

Ensuring gender equality is crucial for building peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable societies. Teachers play an important role in attaining gender equality by creating a learning environment where students, regardless of orientation and background, are provided with equal access to education.

The 2021 ASEFClassNet School Collaboration project “Capacity Building on Education and SDG 5 (Gender Equality) – Gender Equality and the SDGs” engages teachers from secondary & vocational schools from ASEM Countries in a virtual peer-peer collaborative platform to discuss gender equality from diverse cultural perspectives. The project highlights three dimensions of gender equality in the secondary school context: 1) Teaching, 2) Teachers as part of the workplace and 3) Teachers themselves.

The Objectives of the School Collaboration are to:

• Raise awareness of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Gender Equality
• Promote Asia-Europe cross-cultural cooperation on gender-based issues in secondary school education
• Enhance teachers’ competencies and pedagogies for 21st century teaching on the SDGs, in particular SDG5 Gender Equality
• Provide a platform for secondary school teachers to reflect on teaching practices, share experiences and perspectives on Gender Equality in the classroom
• Develop materials and share resources and teaching practices to enhance Gender Equality in the classroom.