New to IGCA

[Emily Giles]

Hello! We are trying to expand IGCA at ISL and we have a nice big group taking part! To kick things off we hosted a salon screening of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which was a great success. I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts that you might have about turning this into a larger project

[Boyd Roberts]

There would seem scope to develop this area further under “Other cultures and outlooks”.

Students could investigate the role of women in different cultures and societies, using, as far as possible, personal statements from people. It might be appropriate to focus on attitudes to education of girls in different countries, perhaps drawing on Malala Yousafzai’s recent book  (I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban) and videos. (There are quite a few on YouTube e.g. a short CNN video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIqOhxQ0-H8 and a much longer 56 minute BBC documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPPuhqIRWuI ; or a longer CNN interview, including with Malala's father at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKIQ_AyLi30).

It might be best to try to find unedited interviews with women rather than edited excerpts used by NGOs to make a case for women’s rights. This would give a broader understanding of views in the context of the relevant society. However, it is easier to find resources that aim to address the issue of women’s rights and gender imbalance in education, such as:

Shazia’s story – about early and forced marriage:

http://globaldimension.org.uk/resources/item/1864

Women’s Rights – from Amnesty

http://globaldimension.org.uk/resources/item/1392

Stories from Zambia – short personal statements from a variety of people, including women on education

https://camfed.org/media/uploads/files/Growing_Up_in_Zambia_Listen_...

I have a story to tell –stories about education from women in a number of African countries

http://globaldimension.org.uk/resources/item/1156 for description

resource at: https://camfed.org/media/uploads/files/I_Have_a_Story_to_Tell.pdf

The Global Campaign for Education has a number of resources that are relevant (http://www.campaignforeducation.org/en/resources) These are mostly factual reports, which are rather indigestible for students, but contain basic factual information on women and education in various countries e.g. http://campaignforeducation.org/docs/reports/GCE_INTERIM_Gender_Rep... and Making it Right for girls http://campaignforeducation.org/docs/reports/GCE_INTERIM_Gender_Rep...