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Organisations

Security 4 Women
Security4Women (S4W) believes that lifelong economic well being is a high priority for Australian women – it empowers women to make choices and live independently. It enriches all aspects of women’s lives including their education, health, employment, personal, safety and financial security over their life time.
www.security4women.org.au

WAVE (Women in Adult and Vocational Education)
WAVE is a national network of women involved in VET, ACE and the broad field of work-related education and training. WAVE provides seminars & workshops, research, policy advocacy and advice, as well as networking on a national and state basis. We are supported within each state by local representation that in turn contributes collaboratively to national events and governance.
www.wave.org.au

Unifem Australia
Promotes women's human rights, polotical participation and economic security.
www.unifem.org.au

JCQTA
The Joint Council of Queensland Teachers’ Associations Inc is a peak body for Queensland education professional associations, state based and national associations based in Queensland, providing a common voice on educational matters in the interests of teachers. JCQTA promotes collaboration between member associations and aims to grow our community whose interests are across preschool, primary, secondary, vocational and tertiary sectors.
www.jcqta.qld.edu.au

Australian Joint Council of Professional Teaching Associations
The Australian Joint Council of Professional Teaching Associations (AJCPTA) is a federation of state and territory joint councils of teacher professional associations representing over 100 000 teachers.
www.ajcpta.edu.au

Readings and resources

Gender justice issues

Schools

Gender Reform in Schools: Slip-sliding away
An historical and political analysis
www.aeufederal.org.au/Women/JKWomCon.pdf

The gender balance; or, whatever happened to feminism?
This online edition of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia journal – Dialogue - features excellent articles and book reviews on feminism.
www.assa.edu.au/Publications/Dialogue/dial32008.pdf

Australian Education Union gender equity policy
www.aeufederal.org.au/Policy/GendEq2008.pdf

Gender Equity: A Framework for Australian Schools (1997)
The Framework was prepared by a MCEETYA Taskforce responsible for providing advice to enable improved educational outcomes for girls and boys in Australian schools. It is designed for use by schools and systems, education practitioners, parents and school communities.
www.curriculum.edu.au/mceetya/default.asp?id=11952

Just boys, just girls and just schooling: Curriculum, behaviours (including bullying) and gender
A professional development paper focusing on gender perspectives across the curriculum
www.sacsa.sa.edu.au/ATT/%7BB116A2B7-F89E-4898-B172-7A10231963D7%7D/boysgirls.pdf

Negotiating and enabling spaces for gender justice
Through feminist informed understandings of injustice, this paper draws on significant research to re-articulate prevailing issues of gender inequity within and beyond the contexts of education in Australia.
www.iier.org.au/iier16/keddie.html

Challenging violence in schools: An issue of masculinities
Martin Mills takes up "the task of challenging the assumptions … on which masculinity is based. This entails demonstrating the ways in which violence has become associated with ‘normalized' forms of masculinity and it also involves making some suggestions about the ways in which this association can be disrupted"
www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/chapters/0335205844.pdf

Boys, Productive Pedagogies and Social Justice
Through social justice lenses that disrupt the victim politics of current gender debates, we want to foreground those educational issues that do involve boys - both as a social group (Young, 1990) and as particular boys - and to consider what may be effective ways of addressing such issues through the classroom without ignoring the ways in which advantage is distributed within the current gender order
www.aare.edu.au/05pap/mil05051.pdf

The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality
A broad guide to involving men and boys in the promotion of gender equality, it cites recent international research on masculinities, men and boys, and also cites useful discussions of the policy questions involved.
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/men-boys2003/Connell-bp.pdf

Community

A picture of Australia's children 2009

http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10704

Australian Human Rights Commission Sex discrimination site
Includes facts and discussion about:

Women and leadership
Balancing paid work and family responsibilities
Sexual harassment in Australia
The gender gap in retirement savings
Laws to address sex discrimination and promote gender equality

www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/index.html

The Australian Government Office for Women (OfW)
A policy advisory unit and a division of the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in Australia
www.ofw.facsia.gov.au

Gender equality: what matters to Australian women and men
The federal Sex Discrimination Commission report 'Gender equality: what matters to Australian women and men' sets out the major issues raised with the Commissioner during her national Listening Tour
www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/listeningtour/index.html

The 'Plan of Action'
Five key areas in which the federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner will focus her efforts over the next few years
www.humanrights.gov.au/listeningtour/launch/action.html

How well does Australian democracy serve Australian women?
The aim of this focused audit has been to consider the extent to which Australian democracy has promoted the equality of men and women, or gender equality for short.
www.democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/200703_madpartozdocwom.pdf

The gender balance; or, whatever happened to feminism?
This online edition of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia journal – Dialogue - features excellent articles and book reviews on feminism.
www.assa.edu.au/Publications/Dialogue/dial32008.pdf

Women, girls and leadership

Social Justice and the Study and Practice of Leadership in Education: A Feminist History
www.awe.asn.au/project-leading-social-change/documents/BlackmoreLeadershipSocialJusticeFeminism.pdf

Redesigning Schools and Leadership
www.awe.asn.au/project-leading-social-change/documents/RedesigningSchoolsandLeadership.pdf

It’s about time: Productive pedagogues and professional learning communities
www.ucalgary.ca/iejll/vol10/sytsma2

School-Based Management in the New Millennium: Gender and Attitudes to Local School Management
www.beecoswebengine.org/servlet/Web?s=157573&p=Con2000_wk4_kstarr

Principals Explore the Emotions of School Leadership
www.awe.asn.au/project-leading-social-change/documents/Principalsemotionsandschoolleadership.pdf

Centered leadership: How talented women thrivewww.mckinseyquarterly.com/Centered_leadership_How_talented_women_thrive_2193

Growing the Next Generation of Leaders
www.awe.asn.au/project-leading-social-change/documents/GrowingtheNextGenerationofLeaders.pdf

The Australian virtual Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW)

www.leadershipforwomen.com.au

Revisiting the Equality/Difference Debate: Redesigning Citizenship for the New Millennium

Women, working within the spaces where public and private worlds collide, operating at the interstices of the public and the private, are providing new role models for active political citizenship.
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Equalitydifferencedebate.pdf

The gender balance; or, whatever happened to feminism?
This online edition of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia journal – Dialogue - features excellent articles and book reviews on feminism.
www.assa.edu.au/Publications/Dialogue/dial32008.pdf

Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?
This paper examines the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. ... it is untrue that the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits.
www.awe.asn.au/documents/ChoosingtoCompete.pdf

Young Women's Leadership Program Resource Kit
www.awe.asn.au/documents/YWLP_2008_Resource_Kit.pdf

See History and politics for more links...

Pedagogy and leadership

"If the core imperative of educational leadership is about student learning, evidence would suggest that the most significant educational factor in the achievement of student learning is teacher practices, rather than principal leadership. This consistent finding in the school effectiveness literature has influenced how we have framed our approach to leadership in two key ways. First, we consider that productive educational leadership is centrally concerned with classroom practices. Second, we acknowledge that educational leadership should be exercised by principals, deputy principals and heads of departments, but it is not limited to them and should also be exercised by teachers, students, parents and others."
Leading Learning: Making hope practical in schools, Lingard, Hayes, Mills, Christie (2006)

Gender Equity: A Framework for Australian Schools (1997)
The Framework was prepared by a MCEETYA Taskforce responsible for providing advice to enable improved educational outcomes for girls and boys in Australian schools. It is designed for use by schools and systems, education practitioners, parents and school communities.
www.curriculum.edu.au/mceetya/default.asp?id=11952

Schools Work Towards Gender Equity
An excellent, practical and comprehensive guide
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/index.htm

Gender Construction and Work in Schools
A section from the Education Queensland website - Boys Gender and Schooling
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/gender.html

It’s about time: Productive pedagogues and professional learning communities
The role of teachers as pedagogues is examined with a view to teachers producing their own learning in professional learning communities. As professionals learning together in community, it is time for teachers to emerge as productive pedagogues who can reshape their own as well as students’ learning outcomes.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/iejll/vol10/sytsma2

Developing Teacher Professional Learning Communities
The Case of Education Queensland. Reflection on the less optimistic aspects of change for teachers, on the negative emotions and tensions that will inevitably surround such a process.
http://ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/login?url=http://scs.une.edu.au/CF/Papers/pdf/ailwood2.pdf

Just boys, just girls and just schooling: Curriculum, behaviours (including bullying) and gender
A professional development paper focusing on gender perspectives across the curriculum
www.sacsa.sa.edu.au/ATT/%7BB116A2B7-F89E-4898-B172-7A10231963D7%7D/boysgirls.pdf

A feminist reframing of bullying and harassment: transforming schools through critical pedagogy
Elizabeth J. Meyer, McGill University
http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/viewFile/1077/2086

Equity Considerations for the Development of Curriculum and Test Materials

The information in this document supports a holistic approach to the development of curriculum and test materials and reflects the interrelated nature of the equity areas. The overriding need is to produce clear, unambiguous and useful materials that help teachers to disrupt inequitable outcomes for students. Queensland School Curriculum Council

http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/about/qsa_equity_considerations.pdf

Boys, Productive Pedagogies and Social Justice
Through social justice lenses that disrupt the victim politics of current gender debates, this paper foregrounds educational issues that involve boys - both as a social group (Young, 1990) and as particular boys and considers what may be effective ways of addressing such issues through the classroom without ignoring the ways in which advantage is distributed within the current gender order
www.aare.edu.au/05pap/mil05051.pdf

Promoting Positive Gender Relationships
A report on research that indicates that effective prevention of gendered violence can occur through curriculum for all age groups that gives students the critical skills to identify the taken-for-granted social attitudes and beliefs about gender that support relationship and family violence, and builds their confidence and courage to challenge such violence in peer, family, social and institutional contexts.
www.education.qld.gov.au/publication/production/reports/docs/genderreport.doc

Understanding Gender Differences: Strategies to Support Girls and Boys
Ways the current research on gender development can be applied in our homes, schools and communities to support young people in growing up whole-that is, beyond the cultural limitations of gender roles
www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/PDFpubs/4423.pdf

Action Research

Action Research
A section from the Education Queensland website - Boys Gender and Schooling
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/action/action.html

Data Gathering Strategies
From the Schools Work Towards Gender Equity website
“On the surface people think that we have done a lot of work but I think what it is more than anything is that we target one thing but as we work through that problem it opens up a whole lot of other issues. So we seem to be in this corridor and we are just getting more doors opening and saying 'look at this area and that area'. It is definitely raising awareness and that is really quite wonderful”.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/3.htm

Planning questions
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Planningquestions.doc

A checklist’s checklist – What does your school say in relation to...
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Achecklistschecklist-Whatdoesyouschoolsayinrelationto....doc

Student opinion survey - Junior
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Studentsurveyjunior.doc

Student opinion survey - Middle - Senior
www.awe.asn.au/documents/StudentSurveymiddle-senior.doc

Questions for improving teacher practice
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Questionsforimprovingteacherpractice.doc

Checklist – How inclusive is your teaching?
www.awe.asn.au/documents/Questionsforimprovingteacherpractice.doc

What is Participatory Action Research?
A paper which came about “in response to requests to speak about some of the collective wisdom that has been generated over many decades by people who have identified what they do using the term 'participatory action research'.
www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/ari/p-ywadsworth98.html

Classroom Action Research
A comprehensive and practical guide for developing a shared theory of teaching by researching practice.
www.madison.k12.wi.us/sod/car/carhomepage.html

Action research for professional development
Concise advice for new action researchers. The idea of self reflection is central. In traditional forms of research – empirical research – researchers do research on other people. In action research, researchers do research on themselves. Empirical researchers enquire into other people’s lives. Action researchers enquire into their own. Action research is an enquiry conducted by the self into the self.
www.jeanmcniff.com/booklet1.html#6

School Case Studies

From the Schools Work Towards Gender Equity website
http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/index.htm

I just had to look at the children…
The school is a co-educational primary school with about 700 students. It is situated in a large regional city in an area of high unemployment and of economic and cultural diversity. There is a focus on Asian Studies; and Indonesian is taught from Reception (the first year of school) to Year 7.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_1.htm

A critical incident
The school is a co-educational primary school situated in a community that has a fairly high socioeconomic profile and is drawn from many different cultural groups.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_2.htm

We've got commitment across the whole staff
The school caters for students from pre primary to Year 10. It is 600 km from the State's capital city with a population of 1100. About 12% of the students are from Aboriginal families. Most of the students live in town with about 10% coming in from surrounding rural areas. There is a lot of unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse and a general acceptance that a high level of violence exists in the community.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_3.htm

Not 'just the boys' - a focus on gender in Year 8
The school is a large secondary school situated in a suburban area of a State capital city. The community is generally quite affluent. One of the features of the school is a performing arts and recreation centre built on site and used by community groups.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_4.htm

An emphasis on collaborative learning skills
The junior primary school is designated as being in a `most disadvantaged' socioeconomic area of a State capital city. There is a high percentage of single parent families in the community and violence, particularly against women, is a common occurrence in many homes. Under special staffing arrangements the school is able to select staff to meet the needs of the student population of 214 children in Reception to Year 2 classes.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_5.htm

Investigating inappropriate behaviours
The school is situated in a coastal town of rapid population growth. There is a wide socioeconomic range among students who come from an extensive feeder area and from several different primary schools. Approximately 650 students attend the school in Years 8 to 12. Features of the school include an agricultural section, a school pool, a special needs centre and a very active student council.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_6.htm

Empowerment ... from the bottom up
The school is co-educational and is part of a multi-campus college situated in the outer suburb of a State capital city. The student population of 450 students in Years 7-10 is representative of about 20 different ethnic backgrounds. There is diversity in the socioeconomic status within the community, ranging from industrial and working class to upwardly mobile, fairly affluent professional and business people.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_7.htm

We had to widen their perceptions ...
The co-educational primary school is located in a low socioeconomic area of a large capital city. The school was opened in 1992 and the community is mainly young families from a range of cultural backgrounds. The school has received a system award for excellence in addressing gender issues.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_8.htm

Gender in the curriculum
The school is a well established girls' school with a tradition of academic success. It is situated in a capital city and draws its students from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. As a school with a strong church foundation, the Religious Education department has great influence on the philosophy of the school and how this is interpreted within aspects of curriculum and organisation.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_9.htm

Construction of gender in primary school
The school has an enrolment of less than 200 students. It is situated in a large country town with a high proportion of Aboriginal students, students from non-English speaking backgrounds, students with disabilities and students whose families live in poverty. There is high unemployment and many families are transient.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_10.htm

A smorgasbord of research and innovation
The school is a P-13, independent girls' school in a State capital city. The students are from relatively affluent home backgrounds.
www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/genderequity/2_11.htm

From the Bullying. No way! website
ww.bullyingnoway.com.au

Examining gender, race, class and power
Teachers in a large urban primary school used action research and integrated curriculum planning to examine gender, race, class and power. They worked towards a curriculum that would remove the need for behaviour management.
www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ideasbox/schools/Default.asp?RequestId=180

Social action through literacy
A primary school uses critical literacy to integrate issues of gender and power through the curriculum, and to increase boys' interest in literacy and reading.
www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ideasbox/schools/Default.asp?RequestId=181

Getting over homophobia
A large urban secondary school uses drama, discussion and community role models to challenge homophobia.
www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ideasbox/schools/Default.asp?RequestId=182

Addressing harassment on all levels
An independent school for boys has been actively assisting boys to develop respectful relationships with peers and female staff.
www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ideasbox/schools/Default.asp?RequestId=183

Maintaining pregnant and parenting young women in education
A large outer urban secondary school realises the impact of bullying on pregnant and parenting young women and has developed strategies to help these students continue their education.
www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ideasbox/schools/Default.asp?RequestId=184

From the Boys Gender and Schooling website
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/resources/school-stories.html

Single sex classes for literacy
The school was prompted to examine issues of boys and schooling after a number of concerns were raised within the wider school community. As a result, the school embarked on a term trial of single-sex classes for literacy.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/matter-benowa.html

Getting started with action research
Literacy and Disadvantage Project - read one teacher's observations on getting started with action research.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/action/action-waterford.html

Which boys? Which girls?
This project demonstrates that effective curriculum and pedagogy are intrinsically about equity and social justice.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/lifting-which.html

Challenging issues of masculinity
Bremer SHS has been dedicated to addressing the behaviour and achievement issues particular to our boys... we have been carrying out the necessary research to develop an appropriate Action Plan... I decided to do my own small scale challenging of these notions with my unsuspecting year 9 English class.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/action/action-bremer.html

How one school worked on issues of boys and literacy
Boys in the Literacy Classroom Professional Development Series… the program was developed within the context of the school and utilised the school's work programs and curriculum to inform the direction of the sessions.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/lifting-harristown.html

Profiles of Leading Women

Meet Some AWE Women

Profiles of leading women from the Association of Women Educators

http://www.awe.asn.au/exec.php

Women’s International Center
A site to inform and educate and celebrate women and their positive, enduring contributions to humanity
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/wic200801.html

National Women’s History Project
Education about women's diverse lives and accomplishments. US based.
www.nwhp.org/index.html

Women in World History
This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women's history in a global, non- U.S. context – for teachers, students and parents
www.womeninworldhistory.com/

Women’s History Month
Information and resources for celebrating Women's History Month (March) in Australia
www.womenshistory.org.au/index.html

Women in Politics
A history, with links, of Australian women in politics, on the Australian Government culture and recreation portal
http://culture.gov.au/articles/politics/women/

Notable Women Ancestors
A database of famous and infamous women offering both historical and genealogical information about them with anecdotes
www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/

Women Leaders
There are many women who have and continue to lead the world
www.womenworldleaders.org/members

Activist Spotlights
http://newsite.vday.org/meet-vday/activist-spotlights

Living Legacy Sward Recipient Biographies
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/wic2008biogreaphies.html

History and Politics

Teaching

Women’s International Center
A site to inform and educate and celebrate women and their positive, enduring contributions to humanity
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/wic200801.html

feMiNa
A comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female friendly sites and information on the World Wide Web
www.femina.com/

Feminist.com
Aimed at helping women network, and educating and empowering women (and men) on issues that affect their lives
www.feminist.com/

National Women’s History Project
Education about women's diverse lives and accomplishments
www.nwhp.org/index.html

Women in World History
This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women's history in a global, non- U.S. context – for teachers, students and parents
www.womeninworldhistory.com/

Women’s History Month
Information and resources for celebrating Women's History Month (March) in Australia
www.womenshistory.org.au/index.html

A Timeline for Change
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=785

Women in Politics
A history, with links, of Australian women in politics, on the Australian Government culture and recreation portal
http://culture.gov.au/articles/politics/women/

Gender Shouldn’t Limit You!
What are the political gender biases among young students? Would they elect a girl president? Adaptable from the US context
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=802

Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?
This paper examines the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. ... it is untrue that the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits.

GRANDMOTHER OF 6: Media Portrayals of Gender in Politics
This lesson invites students to look critically at the way women and men present themselves in the political arena. Students will take a critical look at the photographs and written text in the websites of several male and female politicians. Adaptable from the US context.
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=800

Women in history unit plan
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1009

Notable Women Ancestors
A database of famous and infamous women offering both historical and genealogical information about them with anecdotes
www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/

Women Leaders
There are many women who have and continue to lead the world
www.womenworldleaders.org/members

Activist Spotlights
http://newsite.vday.org/meet-vday/activist-spotlights

Living Legacy Sward Recipient Biographies
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/wic2008biogreaphies.html

History of Women Through Art
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/WICHistoryWomenThroughArt.html

The Witching Hours
An award-winning starting-point for research into the European witch trials of the Medieval - Enlightenment periods
http://shanmonster.bla-bla.com/witch/

Professional learning

Australian Human Rights Commission Sex discrimination site
Includes facts and discussion about:

Women and leadership

Balancing paid work and family responsibilities

Sexual harassment in Australia

The gender gap in retirement savings

Laws to address sex discrimination and promote gender equality

www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/index.html

The Australian Government Office for Women (OfW)
The policy advisory unit and a division of the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in Australia - founded on the goal of mainstreaming women's issues, this means working to ensure that a focus on women's experiences, issues or perspectives becomes everyone's business
www.ofw.facsia.gov.au/

Gender equality: what matters to Australian women and men
The federal Sex Discrimination Commission report 'Gender equality: what matters to Australian women and men' sets out the major issues raised with the Commissioner during her national Listening Tour
www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/listeningtour/index.html

How well does Australian democracy serve Australian women?
The aim of this focused audit has been to consider the extent to which Australian democracy has promoted the equality of men and women, or gender equality for short.
www.democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/200703_madpartozdocwom.pdf

The 'Plan of Action'
Outlines the five key areas in which the federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner will focus her efforts over the next few years.
www.humanrights.gov.au/listeningtour/launch/action.html

Literacy and media

Misogyny in media and culture
Critical examination of the extent to which sexism and misogyny continue to proliferate in mass media and the culture that consumes media
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234

Misogyny in media and culture: study guide
http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/234/studyguide_234.pdf

Sexualisation of children in the contemporary media
This report examines the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment, including radio and television, children's magazines, other print and advertising material and the Internet.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/eca_ctte/sexualisation_of_children/report/index.htm

300 readings and lessons on gender and media issues

Media Awareness Network Canada

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/tools/main_search/search_results.cfm

Critical Literacy
More teaching ideas, curriculum advice, news, reviews, information on professional learning programs and multiple links
wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/English/critlit.htm#whyis

Girl Games: Adventures in Lip Gloss

"...nother example of the tawdry history of sex difference research that is driven by stereotypes and results in reinforcing those stereotypes," says Dr. Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley and author of the definitive text Gender Play. According to Thorne, who has 20 years of experience studying play patterns of girls and boys, "most researchers are now focusing on variation among girls, and among boys, and on areas of commonality, rather than on simplistic claims of dichotomous gender difference."

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19980213/girl_games.htm

Critical Literacy and Visual Texts: Windows on Culture
wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/English/browett.htm

Films on media and gender
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?search=action&category=GEND&template=PDGCommTemplates/HTN/SearchResult_Gender.html

Films on media and gender: study guides
www.mediaed.org/wp/study-guides

Media Portrayals of Girls and Women
Media Awareness Network
www.education-medias.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/index.cfm

Film Australia’s Digital Learning
A rich online resource accompanied by extensive background material and learning resources written by teachers and education experts and linked to the curricula in each Australian state and territory. Many of them focus on Media Literacy, Media Education, English, The Internet and Cyber Technologies.
www.filmaust.com.au/learning/

Centre for Media Literacy
Empowerment through Education - contains excellent information and curriculum materials
www.medialit.org/default.html

Australian Children’s Television Foundation Learning Centre
Units based on television series with free lesson plans and classroom worksheets providing ideas for teaching human rights, philosophy and creativity with particular relevance to English and Media Studies (narrative and multiple texts).
www.actf.com.au/learning_centre/title_pages/crz_tp.php

About Women film and study guide
The primary focus of this guide is to promote social learning across the broad topic of women’s issues. It is designed to encourage reflective speaking and listening: teachers can pick and choose points that can serve as conversation starters.
www.metromagazine.com.au/pdfs/studyguides/ABOUT_WOMEN.pdf

Cambridge Documentary Films
This site contains information on films which focus on how negative images of women in the media affect women's lived experiences.
www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org/films.html

Masculinity and Advertising
Media Awareness Network
www.education-medias.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/men_and_masculinity/masculinity_advertising.cfm

About-Face
Website which combats popular culture's negative and distorted images of women
www.about-face.org/

Passive voices
The passive voice is used far too much in the media when the topic of a story is gender motivated violence and intimidation
www.wo-magazine.com/website/issuefive/passive.html

GenderAds.com
Critical analysis of advertisements
www.genderads.com/Gender_Ads.com.html

Barbie Girl
Unit of work developed for grade 9, but adaptable, that focuses on critical literacy about gender stereotypes.
www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/206.htm

A Celebration of Women Writers
Search by author or by type of collection for interesting info on many women writers.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Rediscovering Forgotten Women Writers
Honouring the far-reaching contribution of women authors
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=163

Collective Poetry
An exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=613

Maths, science and technology

Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science

www.livescience.com/health/070827_girls_math.html

YOUNG PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY
A review of the current literature
www.awe.asn.au/documents/YoungPeopleandTechnology2009.pdf

WomenTech Proven Practices Library

The Proven Practices Library brings educators a research-based road map for recruiting and retaining women and girls in the technology classroom by offering journal articles, best-practice case studies, classroom resources and podcasts and webinars.

www.iwitts.com/html/calwomentech_digitallibrary.html

Gender Initiative project

http://gender.ciscolearning.org/index.html

The WomenTech Project
www.iwitts.com/html/womentech_project.html

The WomenTechWorld.Org

www.womentechworld.org

IWITTS's role in the Cisco Gender Initiative
www.iwitts.com/html/cisco_gender_initiative.html

Poster series: Think Women Can't? Think Again

1) Women in Technology & Trades - set of 7 posters

2) Women in Engineering set of 7 posters

www.womentechstore.com/recruitmentposters.html.

Art, Drama and Music

Misogyny in media and culture
Critique of the devaluing of women by media and our culture that financially supports media is created and reinforced, culminating in the trivializing, mistreatment, and even violence against women.
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234

Misogyny in media and culture: Study guide
www.mediaed.org/assets/products/234/studyguide_234.pdf

The Guerrilla Girls
A group of women artists, writers, performers, film makers and arts professionals who fight discrimination.
www.guerrillagirls.com/

Cambridge Documentary Films
This site contains information on films which focus on how negative images of women in the media affect women's lived experiences.
www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org/films.html

About-Face
Website which combats popular culture's negative and distorted images of women
www.about-face.org/

WOW/EM
A website devoted to young women with interests in the digital media arts, both music and visual with inks to science museums, media history, art and music schools
http://raven.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/

The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Exhibits, preserves, acquires, and researches art by women and educates the public concerning their accomplishments
www.nmwa.org/

History of Women through Art
http://homepage.mac.com/uromastyx.studio/abc/WICHistoryWomenThroughArt.html

Community through Photography
Reporting on their communities helps students recognize problems and find strategies for change
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=618

All about Me Quilt
This activity, using KidPix, asks students to create a digital quilt depicting aspects of culture, location, gender, ability and family identity.
www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/kidpix/quilt.html

Early Music by Women Composers
This page provides information on women composers born before 1900, including chronologies, CD discographies, MIDI sound-files and reference sources.
http://150.252.8.92/www/iawm/pages/

Music and Social Change
www.takingitglobal.org/tiged/activity/view.html?ActivityID=245

Misogyny in Music: Hip Hop's Bad Rap
www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=719

Beyond Rap: Musical Misogyny
www.tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=831

Misogyny in Music: Have Videos Gone Wild?
www.tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=911

Collaborative protest song
www.takingitglobal.org/tiged/activity/view.html?ActivityID=247

Estrogen Music
The Hub for Independent Female Musicians on the Internet with many articles and extensive resources for fans, artists and industry professionals
www.estrogenmusic.com/

Women’s Festival
Find a global listing of festivals for women: art, comedy, film, music, social, spiritual, sports and theater.
www.womensfestival.com/

Personal development and relationships

Getting to grips with gender
From the Boys, Gender and Schooling website - a clear approach on gender issues provides schools with a coherent way to work on those concerns.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/gender.html

Understanding Gender Differences: Strategies to Support Girls and Boys
Ways the current research on gender development can be applied in our homes, schools and communities to support young people in growing up whole-that is, beyond the cultural limitations of gender roles
www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/PDFpubs/4423.pdf

Gender Separate Dialogue Groups
How do girls and boys see themselves? How do they think they’re seen by others? What do gender stereotypes teach kids about who they’re supposed to be?
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities

Boys and Girls Together: Improving Gender Relationships at School
A short article with practical tips from a primary classroom teacher
http://responsiveclassroom.org/PDF_files/15_1nl_1.pdf

When love hurts
A young person's guide on love, respect and abuse in relationships
www.dvirc.org.au/whenlove/index.htm

Promoting Positive Gender Relationships
A report on research that indicates that effective prevention of gendered violence can occur through curriculum for all age groups that gives students the critical skills to identify the taken-for-granted social attitudes and beliefs about gender that support relationship and family violence, and builds their confidence and courage to challenge such violence in peer, family, social and institutional contexts.
www.education.qld.gov.au/publication/production/reports/docs/genderreport.doc

Body Image

About Women
Film with episodes looking at the obstacles and opportunities encountered by a diverse group of women and girls… Exploring these individual stories highlights broader issues and themes (body image, identity, fertility, relationships) and places these in the context of the three major stages of a woman’s life.
www.metromagazine.com.au/studyguides/study.asp

About Women: Study guide
www.metromagazine.com.au/pdfs/studyguides/ABOUT_WOMEN.pdf

GenderAds.com
Critical analysis of advertisements
www.genderads.com/Gender_Ads.com.html

Completely Gorgeous
Challenge media stereotypes - “Completely Gorgeous”, the website, is an active, fun, and useful classroom resource for teachers and students from upper primary school to senior levels of secondary school. It includes the text and illustrations from Real Gorgeous the book; the animated 10 minute video Gorgeous; some further material (including links to other sites addressing the subject matter), and a series of games which can be used for exploring issues.
http://completelygorgeous.com.au/

Body image, weight and size
An excerpt from the "Body Image" chapter of “Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century”
www.feminist.com/resources/ourbodies/body.html

Student information pack
From the Queensland Eating Disorders Association
www.eda.org.au/Info%20Pack%20For%20Students.pdf

Gender Separate Dialogue Groups
Lesson for grade levels 8 – 12. How do girls and boys see themselves? How do they think they’re seen by others? What do gender stereotypes teach kids about who they’re supposed to be?
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=803

The ABCs of Size Bias
This edition of The Anti-Bias Classroom shows educators how to foster healthier attitudes about body size.
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=825

Many Shapes and Sizes
This activity for grades preK-2 helps even the youngest of children celebrate size diversity.
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=827

Beauty is Skin Deep
This media literacy lesson for grades 6-10 helps students analyze the ways media representations about size and appearance can impact our attitudes and behaviors.
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=826

Reshaping Body Image
An upper grades activity to help student dissect the current social norms about physical size and appearance
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=828

Reverse Images
Activities to inspire young women to challenge the media's promotion of unhealthy messages about beauty
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/sidebar.jsp?p=0&si=424

Barbie Girl
Unit of work developed for grade 9, but adaptable, that focuses on critical literacy about gender stereotypes.
www.ricw.state.ri.us/lessons/206.htm

About-Face
Website which combats popular culture's negative and distorted images of women
www.about-face.org/

Teaching Tolerance website

http://www.tolerance.org/

Tips For Teachers

Kids Come In All Sizes

Understanding Size Bias

Size Bias As A Social Construction

The 'O' Words

Fat… So?

No Laughing Matter

Reshaping Body Image

Sexuality

Sexual Health HPE Sourcebook Module - Upper Primary

Understand the physical, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of sexual health. Identify factors influencing growth and development, relating in particular
to puberty, sexual identity and relationships and examine the range and accessibility of resources available in the community. Consider the health related impact of attitudes, values and beliefs on sexual decision-making and strategies to maintain sexual health to enhance self-esteem now and in the future.

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/sexhealth/documents/15410.pdf

Completely Gorgeous
Challenge media stereotypes - “Completely Gorgeous”, the website, is an active, fun, and useful classroom resource for teachers and students from upper primary school to senior levels of secondary school. It includes the text and illustrations from Real Gorgeous the book; the animated 10 minute video Gorgeous; some further material (including links to other sites addressing the subject matter), and a series of games which can be used for exploring issues.
http://completelygorgeous.com.au/

Sex in Australia
The Australian Study of Health and Relationships is the largest and most comprehensive survey of sexuality ever undertaken in this country
www.latrobe.edu.au/ashr/

Sexualisation of children in the contemporary media
This report examines the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment, including radio and television, children's magazines, other print and advertising material and the Internet.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/eca_ctte/sexualisation_of_children/report/index.htm

Sex - telling it like it is: a parent and teen insight
www.mariestopes.com.au/resource-files/Research%20-%20Detailed%20Findings1.pdf

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth

Family Issues Journal - Creating Safe Spaces for All Youth
For educators working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth
www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4428.htm

Teaching Tolerance
A US website which contains many classroom activities including some excellent resources for challenging homophobia
www.tolerance.org

The Peers Outsmarting Homophobia (POSH) booklet
This booklet from Health Sciences, La Trobe University, is for youth specifically focusing on overcoming homophobia.
www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/posh

GQ: Gender Questioning
This resource is available from Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria. It is designed to provide information and support to young people between 16 and 25 who are questioning their gender or supporting someone who is doing so.
www.glhv.org.au/node/242

Same Sex Attracted Youth Website
The website is the initiative of researchers at The Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society (ARCSHS), at La Trobe University and contains current research and the ways that we are using the research to bring about change, particularly to reduce homophobia, including reports, journal articles, booklets, posters, briefings and conferences.
www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/

SSAFE Gender Identity Issues
This resource was produced by the Same-Sex Attracted Family Environments (SSAFE) in Schools Project, Family Planning Victoria and funded by the Premier’s Drug Prevention Council and VicHealth.
www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/teachlearn/student/ssafegenderidentityissues.pdf

Family diversity film clips
Helps children in grades K-8 understand the different shapes families take today
http://groundspark.org/our-films-and-campaigns/thatfamily/taf_clips

Family diversity film clips: Discussion and teaching guide
http://groundspark.org/our-films-and-campaigns/thatfamily/taf_techguide

Schools out
UK website with resources for students and teachers
www.schools-out.org.uk/teachingpack/tacklingbullying.htm

Examples of school LGBT policies
www.galebc.org/policy.htm

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
This U.S. website of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression
www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html

Art lesson plans
www.nonamecallingweek.org/binary-data/NoNameCalling_ATTACHMENTS/file/137-2.pdfInformation Pamphlets and Fact Sheets

The Gender Centre Inc information kits
www.gendercentre.org.au/kits.htm

Gender, Sex and Sexuality Learning Module
This is for health practitioners however the activities are also relevant and adaptable for teachers
www.genderandhealth.ca/en/modules/sexandsexuality/

The GLSEN Jump-Start Guide for Gay-Straight Alliances
These resources take you through the process of establishing or re-establishing Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) or similar clubs, identifying your mission and goals, and assessing your school's climate.
www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/custom/jump.html

Enacting Masculinity: Antigay Violence and Group Rape as Participatory Theater
This article draws on scholarship from multiple disciplines to propose a theoretical linkage between two frequent yet seemingly disparate forms of violence types of violence by young men in groups - rapes of women and assaults on perceived gay men http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.25

Bullying, harassment & violence

Teaching

The nature of bullying and how school communities can respond
Author: Maria Delaney
85 slides that: explain what bullying is, describe the forms of bullying that exist, explore types of approaches to stop bullying, provide ideas for school policies related to bullying, examine bystander behaviour, explore cyber bullying and the effects of student's exposure to pornography and give ideas for working with parents to tackle this issue.

Bullying. No way!
The Bullying. No way! website is developed and managed by all Australian education authorities for use by Australia's Government, Catholic and Independent school communities. It contains a wealth of information and ideas for the whole school community
www.bullyingnoway.com.au

Boys Gender and Schooling website
The Boys Gender and Schooling website has been developed by Education Queensland for school communities - teachers, administrators, parents - working to address issues in boys' education. It will help you to foster respectful and egalitarian attitudes for boys in your schools.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/index.html

Unifem Fact Sheet
Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence
www.unifem-eseasia.org/resources/factsheets/UNIFEMSheet5.pdf

Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
A comprehensive tool kit designed to help you work with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools.
http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home/

Lessons from the Office for Women
www.whiteribbonday.org.au/media/documents/WRD08_Schools_kit.pdf

Education and Action Kit for students and schools
Produced by the Canadian White Ribbon Campaign
www.womankind.org.uk/toolkit.html

Canadian White Ribbon Day Campaign in a Box
www.whiteribbon.com/ciab/default.asp

Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum: Social Studies for Grade 12
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur7-12/pnvcur7-12.html

Gender Doesn't Limit You!
Curriculum to counteract gender bullying in the early grades
www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=841

No name calling week - bullying and violence lessons and resources
Useful items that can help you plan, promote, and carry out many different kinds of anti-bullying events and activities.
www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/resources/index.html

GenderAds.com
Critical analysis of advertisements
www.genderads.com/Gender_Ads.com.html

Cyberbullying
Boys and computer games
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/resources/pda.html

Girl Games: Adventures in Lip Gloss

"...nother example of the tawdry history of sex difference research that is driven by stereotypes and results in reinforcing those stereotypes," says Dr. Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley and author of the definitive text Gender Play. According to Thorne, who has 20 years of experience studying play patterns of girls and boys, "most researchers are now focusing on variation among girls, and among boys, and on areas of commonality, rather than on simplistic claims of dichotomous gender difference."

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19980213/girl_games.htm

Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP): Gender Violence Prevention Education & Training
The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Model is a gender violence, bullying, and school violence prevention approach that encourages young men and women from all socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds to take on leadership roles in their schools and communities
www.jacksonkatz.com/resources.html

Tough Guise
Part of a film series with study guides which could stand alone as resources to help young men challenge cultural stereotypes and expectations
Film information
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=211

Tough Guise: Study guide
www.mediaed.org/assets/products/211/studyguide_211.pdf

Purple Armband Games
Promotes peer leadership in opposing violence against women - many useful links and resources about sport and the culture of violence
www.purplearmband.org/main.htm

Rape Myth-Busters
Manual for a comprehensive program for young men about healthy relationships and rape prevention
www.shinesa.org.au/files/rape_myth_buster_manual_cards.pdf

Men Can Stop Rape
This U.S. site has some good links, interesting discussions and program models. Link to the resources section:
www.mencanstoprape.org/info-url2699/info-url.htm

Professional learning

A feminist reframing of bullying and harassment: transforming schools through critical pedagogy
Elizabeth J. Meyer, McGill University
http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/viewFile/1077/2086

Bullying, harassment and violence among students
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JVP/is_80/ai_n27486093/print?tag=artBody;col1

Gender Violence in Elementary and Secondary Schools
www.musc.edu/vawprevention/research/nan_stein.shtml

Stopping violence against women at its primary root
The connections between male violence against women and bullying in the playground
www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/04/stopping_violen

Construction of gender: violence and school culture
Tasmanian Department of Education
www.education.tas.gov.au/school/health/inclusive/gender/support/construction/violence_and_school_culture/

School Discipline and Management Policies
Tasmanian Department of Education
www.education.tas.gov.au/school/health/inclusive/gender/support/construction/violence_and_school_culture/

Just boys, just girls and just schooling: Curriculum, behaviours (including bullying) and gender
A professional development paper focusing on gender perspectives across the curriculum
www.sacsa.sa.edu.au/ATT/%7BB116A2B7-F89E-4898-B172-7A10231963D7%7D/boysgirls.pdf

Challenging violence in schools: An issue of masculinities
Examines the assumptions on which masculinity is based, the ways in which violence has become associated with ‘normalized' forms of masculinity and makes some suggestions about the ways in which this association can be disrupted
www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/chapters/0335205844.pdf

Boys Gender and Schooling website
The Boys Gender and Schooling website has been developed by Education Queensland for school communities - teachers, administrators, parents - working to address issues in boys' education. It will help you to foster respectful and egalitarian attitudes for boys in your schools.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/index.html

An Assault on Our Future: The impact of violence on young people and their relationships
The report, An Assault on Our Future: The impact of violence on young people and their relationships, shows that this violence is having a major impact on the long term health and wellbeing of Australia’s children.
www.whiteribbonday.org.au/media/documents/AssaultOnOurFutureFinal.pdf

The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality
A broad guide to issues involving men and boys in the promotion of gender equality… the paper identifies current tasks for gender equality policy and suggest a policy framework for incorporating men and boys
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/men-boys2003/Connell-bp.pdf

Engaging Men: Strategies and Dilemmas in Violence Prevention Education Among Men
A strong argument identifying community education as a key element in violence prevention that may lead toward the profound changes in men's lives and the social construction of masculinity which are necessary to end men's violence against women www.education.vic.gov.au/healthwellbeing/safety/childprotection/sciau.htm

Promoting Positive Gender Relationships
A report of a study into the feasibility of developing and delivering curriculum through Queensland state schools to promote positive gender relationships
http://education.qld.gov.au/publication/production/reports/docs/genderreport.doc

Good Gender Policies at School
A section from the Education Queensland website Boys, Gender and Schooling
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/issues/gender-good.html

Domestic and family violence

Teaching

Family and Domestic Violence Student Kit
The kit has been designed for students at high school, TAFE and university. It is intended to provide students with information for general education and awareness raising, as well as information that will be useful for assignments
www.community.wa.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F776157A-B332-4400-8FBB-339B6CBF86FB/0/DCDKITFamilyandDomesticViolenceStudentKit20050119.pdf

Teaching about Woman Abuse and its Effects on Children
This resource is a teachers' guide which includes clear presentation formats and links which may be edited and used to reflect Australian issues and contexts
www.lfcc.on.ca/professors_guide.pdf

Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum: Social Studies for Grade 12
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur7-12/pnvcur7-12.html

Unifem Fact Sheet
Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence
www.unifem-eseasia.org/resources/factsheets/UNIFEMSheet5.pdf

Education and Action Kit for students and schools
Produced by the Canadian White Ribbon Campaign
www.womankind.org.uk/toolkit.html

The Savvy Schools Kit
A practical, user-friendly resource published by Education Queensland and available online for school communities to help raise awareness and develop appropriate practices
http://education.qld.gov.au/studentservices/inclusive/gender/savvy.html

Bursting the Bubble
An award-winning support site for young people produced by the Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre, Victoria
www.burstingthebubble.com/

The Hideout
Information and support for children and young people living with domestic violence
www.thehideout.org.uk/default.aspa

Canadian White Ribbon Day Campaign in a Box
www.whiteribbon.com/ciab/default.asp

Lessons from the Australian government Office for Women
www.whiteribbonday.org.au/media/documents/WRD08_Schools_kit.pdf

Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP): Gender Violence Prevention Education & Training
The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Model is a gender violence, bullying, and school violence prevention approach that encourages young men and women from all socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds to take on leadership roles in their schools and communities
www.jacksonkatz.com/resources.html

Tough Guise
Part of a film series with study guides which can stand alone as resources to help young men challenge cultural stereotypes and expectations
Film information
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=211

Tough Guise: Study guide
www.mediaed.org/assets/products/211/studyguide_211.pdf

Boys Gender and Schooling website
The Boys Gender and Schooling website has been developed by Education Queensland for school communities - teachers, administrators, parents - working to address issues in boys' education. It will help you to foster respectful and egalitarian attitudes for boys in your schools.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/index.html

Rape Myth-Busters
Manual for a comprehensive program for young men about healthy relationships and rape prevention
www.shinesa.org.au/files/rape_myth_buster_manual_cards.pdf

Men Can Stop Rape
This U.S. site has some good links, interesting discussions and program models. Link to the resources section:
www.mencanstoprape.org/info-url2699/info-url.htm

Professional learning

An Assault on Our Future: The impact of violence on young people and their relationships
The report, An Assault on Our Future: The impact of violence on young people and their relationships shows that this violence is having a major impact on the long term health and wellbeing of Australia’s children.
www.whiteribbonday.org.au/media/documents/AssaultOnOurFutureFinal.pdf

Just boys, just girls and just schooling: Curriculum, behaviours (including bullying) and gender
A professional development paper focusing on gender perspectives across the curriculum
www.sacsa.sa.edu.au/ATT/%7BB116A2B7-F89E-4898-B172-7A10231963D7%7D/boysgirls.pdf

Promoting Positive Gender Relationships
A report of a study into the feasibility of developing and delivering curriculum through Queensland state schools to promote positive gender relationships
http://education.qld.gov.au/publication/production/reports/docs/genderreport.doc

Stopping violence against women at its primary root
The connections between male violence against women and bullying in the playground
www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/04/stopping_violen

Through a new lens: seeing woman abuse in the life of a young child
A Canadian learning module for early childhood education programs - includes resource packages and power-point slides
www.lfcc.on.ca/New_lens_module.pdf

Engaging Men: Strategies and Dilemmas in Violence Prevention Education Among Men
A strong argument identifying community education as a key element in violence prevention that may lead toward the profound changes in men's lives and the social construction of masculinity which are necessary to end men's violence against women www.education.vic.gov.au/healthwellbeing/safety/childprotection/sciau.htm

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
A national resource on issues of domestic violence and family violence
www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/

The NSW Women's Refuge Resource Centre
This site provides information about domestic violence, women's refuges, Aboriginal issues, children and domestic violence, Non English Speaking Background issues, domestic violence and the law, and current hot issues in the refuge movement, refuge contacts and a diverse range of women's services and feminist links
www.wrrc.org.au/

The Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre (DVIRC)
A statewide service in Victoria, Australia, DVIRC provides information and referral
www.dvirc.org.au/

Children and Domestic Violence
A Canadian centre known around the world for its innovative work on the effects of domestic violence on children of all ages, from infants to teenagers - material on related to child witnesses to violence at home
www.lfcc.on.ca/children_exposed_to_domestic_violence.html

Neighbours, Friends and Families
A Canadian public education campaign to raise awareness of the signs of woman abuse so that those close to an at-risk woman or an abusive man can help
http://neighboursfriendsandfamilies.ca/

Literature review: family and domestic violence in culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities
The purpose of this is to identify the recent literature and current research on issues and initiatives throughout Australia
www.community.wa.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F99C99BA-66BB-47A4-A2F2-C9A73AE360F1/0/CaLDliteraturereview.pdf

Culturally Appropriate Strategies in Preventing Violence Against Women
A workshop presentation on the development and implementation of three culturally appropriate strategies to reduce violence against women
www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/Conference%20papers/Seek-soln/Venkatraman,Rugmini_Johar,A.pdf

Immigrant Women's Support Service
A community based crisis and support service which works with women and children of non-English speaking background who are or have been in violent domestic situations and/or have experienced rape and/or sexual assault.
www.iwss.org.au/

Through Young Black Eyes
A series of resources to help develop child safe communities and protect children from the impact of family violence and child abuse

Workshop Kit
http://srs.snaicc.asn.au/projects/default.cfm?loadref=167

Handbook
http://srs.snaicc.asn.au/projects/default.cfm?loadref=183

A Guide for Indigenous Community Leaders to Respond to Family Violence and Child Abuse http://srs.snaicc.asn.au/_uploads/rsfil/00154.pdf

Keep Your Family Safe
a leaflet for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children about family violence and child abuse
http://srs.snaicc.asn.au/_uploads/rsfil/00155.pdf

Reclaim the Night
A movement to encourage grass roots participation in the organisation of events by as many women as possible. In this way it is able to draw together women from diverse backgrounds and experiences to work together in addressing issues of sexual violence against women and children
www.isis.aust.com/rtn/

V-Day
Within a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery
http://newsite.vday.org/

Sexual harassment and assault

Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
A comprehensive tool kit designed to help you work with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools.
http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home/

Rape Myth-Busters
Manual for a comprehensive program for young men about healthy relationships and rape prevention
www.shinesa.org.au/files/rape_myth_buster_manual_cards.pdf

Men Can Stop Rape
This U.S. site has some good links, interesting discussions and program models. Link to the resources section:
www.mencanstoprape.org/info-url2699/info-url.htm

Enacting Masculinity: Antigay Violence and Group Rape as Participatory Theater
This article draws on scholarship from multiple disciplines to propose a theoretical linkage between two frequent yet seemingly disparate forms of violence types of violence by young men in groups - rapes of women and assaults on perceived gay men
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.25

Responding to young people disclosing sexual assault
A resource for schools from the Australian Institute of Family Studies
www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/wrap/w6.html

Links to information and support services

Sexual harassment in Australia
From the Australian Human Rights Commission
www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/programs/sexual_harassment.html

The Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault
Access to current information and resources, in Australia and worldwide, in to assist those committed to working against sexual assault.
www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/index.html

The Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre (DVIRC)
A statewide service in Victoria, Australia, DVIRC provides information and referral
www.dvirc.org.au/

Centre Against Sexual Assault
Resources from the Victorian Centres Against Sexual Assault
www.casa.org.au/index.php?page_id=22

Courage for women
Information & support for female victims/survivors of sexual assault in Australia
www.courageforwomen.com

Reclaim the Night
A movement to encourage grass roots participation in the organization of events by as many women as possible. In this way it is able to draw together women from diverse backgrounds and experiences to work together in addressing issues of sexual violence against women and children
www.isis.aust.com/rtn/

V-Day
Within a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery
http://newsite.vday.org/

Girls and ICT

Designing for Diversity: Investigating Electronic Games as Pathways for Girls into Information Technology Professions

http://cct.edc.org/project_summary.asp?numProjectId=796

Girls and ICTs website

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