Emancipatory pedagogies
The Emancipatory pedagogies project is a learning and teaching process in Central American classrooms that addresses issues of gender stereotyping, sexism and exclusion in the classroom and other arenas of students’ lives. Costa Rican teachers first developed the project, which is now advanced by partners working with preschool, elementary and high school students in Honduras and El Salvador. The process is accompanied by regional consultants Esperanza Tasies and Maria Trejos, experts in education and the Non-Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy (NSIP) model, and it expands over four main areas: teacher training, action research, alternative lesson aids and documenting lessons learned. The program’s connecting thread is a gender-sensitive organizational process that can impact pedagogical mediation with social justice values in the classroom.
ANDES 21 de Junio - El Salvador
Est. 1965
CoDev Partner since 1986/2007
The National Association of Salvadoran Educators is a national organization of education professionals, working to defend the rights of the working class and the right of every Salvadoran to a free, quality public education.
Since 2010, ANDES 21 de Junio and the Women’s Secretariat has been training teachers in the Non- Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy (NSIP) approach, collectively creating and disseminating lesson aids such as the civics textbook “Ourselves, others and the world which surrounds us”, and developing an accredited four-month Diploma Program in the theory and methodology of NSIP.
Currently the Women’s Secretariat is generating a new social studies textbook “America in Time and Space” for approaching the history and geography of El Salvador from a gender equality lens, and incorporating a new team of science teachers who will be introduced to the NSIP tools for their application in the classroom. ANDES 21 de Junio is currently developing an action-research process to identify lessons learned throughout the project.
The Honduran Middle School Teachers’ College – COPEMH is a professional institution which brings together middle school teachers and works to protect the teaching profession, participates in the elaboration of study plans and programs for the different education levels, and develops projects for teacher training and promotes close relations with other teachers’ unions in Central America.
A CoDev partner since 2011, COPEMH and the Women’s Network develop teachers’ skills and facilitators in the Non-Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy (NSIP) model through national workshops and online training.COPEMH organizes an interdisciplinary team of science and social studies teachers who apply the NSIP lesson unit “Neither little red riding hoods, nor big bad wolves” and are currently testing others with high school students such as “Time and space, why we migrate?” on forced migration and “Naia and the greenhouse effect” on climate change. COPEMH supports organizational efforts made by parents and communities in defense of public education, and is part of the national Platform to Defend Healthcare and Public Education.
The First Professional Teachers’ College of Honduras – PRICPHMA is a national and academic institution which promotes pre-school teachers’ labour rights, as well as fosters their professional and academic growth.
A partner since 2015, PRICPHMA provides training in the Non-Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy (NSIP) teaching model for early educators, deepening knowledge of alternative mediation and the critical use of information and communication technology. Teachers collectively analyze and create inclusive and participatory lesson aids that are applied in the classroom and at home by parents. PRICPHMA also opens opportunities for strengthening women’s political and organizational empowerment within the union from a gender-sensitive perspective.
Currently PRICPHMA is validating a new lesson aid for pre-school students “We learn moving”, lobbying Honduran education authorities for its final official authorization and for the approval of a special accredited diploma program in non-sexist and inclusive education as part of teachers’ training and professional development.
Canadian partners: BCTF