‘Ai, ei, oi’ - a Project-based Approach to Gender Equality at Secondary School. Analysis of a Case Study of Creative and Cooperative Musical, Linguistic, and Social Interdiscipinary Project against Gender-based Violence

Abstract

Competence describes pedagogical processes which involve teachers, students, contents, methodologies, and skills to be developed for the world of tomorrow, alongside multilingualism and interdisciplinarity to bridge new social and academic grounds. Moreover, civic education and gender equality-based awareness enhances students’s critical thinking and assertive adaptation to equality and motivation to become active educators across different school fields of knowledge. Thus, there is an objective need to incorporate teachers in the direct process(es) of competence development. In the light of these premises, the current paper analyzes PBL —Project-based Learning— as the working scenario for a flexible student-based and response-based methodology to ensure self-sustained engagement and motivation that may route the use of multiple intelligences to create new and more complex cognitive development and knowledge, hence, competence. To this respect, pedagogical processes must fulfill certain key factors: (i) the code and its accessibility; (ii) cultural difficulty; (iii) task familiarity, (iv) the teacher’s role, and (v) cognitive difficulty. When correctly tackled, projects enhance meaningful learning. Additionally, teachers would need autonomy to empower students on decision-making spheres to provide new grounds for cooperative personal and academic development. This paper analyzes the case of a group of students and teachers who have displayed the ability to go beyond the limitations of traditional pedagogy and mature a pedagogical and interdisciplinary musical project to approach gender equality and provide a space to make a claim against gender-based violence encompassing the creation, production, recording and spreading of such model to other neighboring institutions as a valid pedagogical project.

Presenters

Kristian Pérez Zurutuza
Student, PhD, EHU-UPV & Beasain BHI, Guipúzcoa, Spain

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2024 Special Focus—People, Education, and Technology for a Sustainable Future

KEYWORDS

Cooperative and Multilingual Methodology, Gender Studies, Motivation Studies, PBL