Tag Archives: textbooks

Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Posted on 19 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at the positive example Rwanda sets in promoting gender equality through its textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, gender. equality, learning, rwanda, textbooks | 6 Comments

We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools

Posted on 16 January 2017 by GEM Report

Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged books, equality, Gender, teaching, textbooks | 1 Comment

Global health funds have done a lot of good. Is there room for a “global fund” for books?

Posted on 13 January 2017 by GEM Report

By Paul Wilson, Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University. Books, especially textbooks, are critical to learning, as we have been reading in the latest blog series on this site, but they are in grievously short … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Teachers, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged education, financing, funding, GAVI, global fund, textbooks | Leave a comment

What American textbooks say about Vietnam, and about Americans’ attitudes toward war

Posted on 11 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog examines what a country’s textbooks can tell us about their attitude towards war, and in particular how coverage of the Vietnam war has changed over time in American textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Sustainable development, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, curriculum, sustainable development, target 4.7, textbooks | 2 Comments

We need textbooks that are affirming of sexual diversity

Posted on 10 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at the way that textbooks can help or hinder the tolerance of sexual diversity. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Human rights, LGBT, LGBTI, sexual diversity, Sexual violence, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, curriculum, education, homosexuality, human rights, LGBT, LGBTI, sexual diversity, target 4.7, textbooks | Leave a comment

The Current State of Textbooks in Turkey: a denial of minorities

Posted on 9 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how Turkish textbooks could better incorporate the cultures, lifestyles and histories of ethnic and religious minorities. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Sustainable development, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, curriculum, sustainable development, target 4.7, textbooks, turkey | Leave a comment

The 1994 Genocide as Taught in Rwanda’s Classrooms

Posted on 6 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how textbook and curricula reforms in Rwanda have worked to cover the 1994 Genocide and instill the ideals of tolerance, unity and reconciliation in students. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Conflict, curriculum, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, teaching, textbooks, united nations, violence | Tagged Africa, Between the Lines Blog Series, conflict, curricula, curriculum, genocide, rwanda, teachers, teaching, textbooks, tolerance | 1 Comment

Viet Nam: Using Textbooks and Curricula for Gender Equality

Posted on 19 December 2016 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how recent textbook reforms in Viet Nam have worked to improve gender equality. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between … Continue reading →

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Target 4.7 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on education for global citizenship and sustainable development?

Posted on 13 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, … Continue reading →

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Books for Every Child: The Global Book Fund

Posted on 8 February 2016 by GEM Report

Penelope Bender, Learning Team Lead, USAID’s Office of Education (@penelopebender, @USAIDEducation) Despite the education sector’s longstanding call of “Education For All,”children in many countries are not learning to read and cannot read to learn. The right to education is not … Continue reading →