Gender Equality in Schools: Implications for the Curriculum, Teaching and Classroom Interaction

Abstract

This paper discusses the content and delivery of education and how it can reflect and reproduce gender inequalities. Girls’ and boys’ learning and interaction with each other, and the teacher, are influenced by ways of teaching, the content of the curriculum, and relations within the classroom. The paper highlights these aspects of educational provision-curriculum, teaching and learning, and the dynamics of the classroom and school. It further discusses a gender-equitable approach to schooling, making teaching and the curriculum gender equitable in schools and ways of educating teachers to promote gender equality in schools. The paper recommends changes needed to ensure that educational provision will promote gender equality in schools in the new millennium.

Keywords: Gender Equality, Curriculum, Classroom interaction.