UNESCO - EFA Global Monitoring Report

Box 4.11. Training teachers against violence in South Africa

The School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa has developed a model to incorporate the issue of gender-based violence into the primary school curriculum, piloting two training models – the ‘whole school’ approach and ‘train the trainer’ in six primary schools in Cape Town. The purpose of the training was to challenge the teachers’ own knowledge and attitudes towards gender-based violence and to identify strategies to address the problem. Both models led to significant changes in the way teachers understood gender-based violence and in the role of schools to address the problem. -Before the training 30% of teachers felt that schools could play a meaningful role in addressing gender-based violence, and after the training 70% of teachers felt that to be so. - 85% of teachers felt that gender-based violence was a significant problem in their own schools, and all of them believed that the school curriculum should include content on gender-based violence starting at Grade 5 (age 9–10).





Source: ID21 website.

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