{"id":59550,"date":"2015-12-12T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/capacity-building-workshop-on-gender-education\/"},"modified":"2015-12-12T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:11:06","slug":"capacity-building-workshop-on-gender-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/capacity-building-workshop-on-gender-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity building workshop on gender education"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 11, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — <\/span><\/p>\n

INVITATION TO MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES<\/p>\n

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What:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capacity-Building Workshop on Gender Education<\/p>\n

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When:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14-16 December 2015<\/p>\n

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Who:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU\/CIEFFA), specialized institution of the African Union<\/p>\n

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Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/p>\n

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Objectives:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The objectives of the workshop are as follows:<\/p>\n

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Understand the impact that a learner\u2019s gender has on the construction of his\/her knowledge<\/p>\n

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Outline student\u2019s constructions of gender influence and their social interactions with peers and adults\/teachers<\/p>\n

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Identify equitable strategies that prepare teachers to be sensitive to issues of gender equity<\/p>\n

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Participants: The Capacity- building workshop will gather senior officials of Ministries in charge of Education from AU Member States involved in teacher training and curriculum development, as well as Regional Economic Communities (RECs)<\/p>\n

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Expected outcomes: The expected results from the participants are:<\/p>\n

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Enhanced understanding of the interplay of gender dynamics in the educational system
Selection of the best equitable teaching strategies suited to their own contexts
Review of their teaching and learning resources to become gender-sensitive<\/p>\n

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Background:<\/p>\n

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The International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU\/CIEFFA) is a specialized institution of the African Union since 2004, dealing with women and girls\u2019 education following Decision Assembly\/AU\/DEC.44 (III). One of its objectives is to build the operational capacities of Member States on girls and women\u2019s education issues.<\/p>\n

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The Centre works closely with AU Member States, civil society and international partners to implement its programmes and activities in collaboration with UN educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).\u00a0 The Mission of the AU\/CIEFFA is in line with the vision of Agenda 2063 which outlines that the African woman will be fully empowered in all spheres, with equal social, political and economic rights and opportunities and enabled to fight against all forms of violence and discrimination.<\/p>\n

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Within this context, the Commission is convening a workshop on the clarification of gender and education.<\/p>\n

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Media representatives are invited to cover the opening ceremony from 9.00 am to 9.30 am on Monday 14th December 2015 and the closing on Wednesday 16th December 2015 from 3.00 pm to 3.30 pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 11, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — INVITATION TO MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES What:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capacity-Building Workshop on Gender Education When:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14-16 December 2015 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (AU\/CIEFFA), specialized institution of the African Union \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Objectives:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-59550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}