Description
The educational campaign that aims to incite interest of students and pedagogues in major female characters of Slovak history, is central to this project. To this day, these female characters are overshadowed by their male counterparts. While their stories evolved in different historical contexts, all of them were the “First” practitioners of different professions and their stories should certainly not disappear from our collective memory. The project fills an acute gap in attractive educational information and counteracts the prevailing indifference of students to demanding topics. The educational campaign consists of 3 parts – campaign in online media, series of pilot discussions in selected schools and presentation of project in mainstream media. Young people, pedagogues and general public will learn about social contributions of ten female characters in historical context in short videos presented in social media. Directors and authors of documentaries and other respected public figures will co-present the ten personalities. In their testimonies they will strengthen their relevance to present day and by doing so will increase the attractiveness of videos for our focus groups. The focused testimonies will also work as trailers to individual films. Schools and pedagogues with active interest in gender equality topics will be selected to take part in the project and will hold 7 screenings followed by discussions. The discussion topics will link the topic of each documentary film, historical gender equality perspective with its relevance today (in cooperation with NGOs Aspekt and Freedom of Choice). Pilot debates will be recorded and feedback from students and pedagogues will be gathered via questionnaires. Recommendations on format and content of future discussions will be elaborated in the electronic Manual for pedagogues of social studies subjects.
Summary of project results
The subject of the project was the educational campaign with the aim to stimulate the interest of students and pedagogues in major female characters of Slovak history. To this day, these female characters are oveshadowed by their male counterparts. While their stories evolved in different historical context, all of them were the "First" practitioners of different professions and their stories should certainly not disappear from our collective memory. The project filled an acute gap in attractive educational information and counteracts the prevailing indifference of students to demanding topics. The educational campaig consisted of 3 parts - campaign in online media, series of pilot discussions in selected schools and presentation of project in mainstream media. Young people, pedagogues and general public came to learn about social contributions of ten female characters in historical context through ten short videos presented in social media. Shorts displayed heavy content to present ten strong female perosnalities in a remarkable way. The shorts were prepared to perform as trailers to individual documentaries. Schools and pedagogues with active interest in gender equlaity topics were selected to take part in the project and they attended the screenings followed by discussions. The discussion topics of each film, historical gender equality perspective with its relevance today. Doscussions were organized in cooperation with Freedom of Choice NGO. The whole experience was elaborated in the Manual for pedagogues of social studies subjects. Educational campaign made visible ten female personalities of the Slovak history. The ambition was to provoke the discussion about the perception of female historical patterns in our educational system. The campaign was successful both in communicating the historical facts and the gender issues, the target groups were affected by meaningful values of human identity. The complete doscumentary series Female FIrst will be screened via national broadcaster RTVS in Autumn 2016. The Slovak Film Institute plans to distribute DVDs in 2017, which will help to spread the ideas on gender equality in schools.
Summary of bilateral results