EDM 616: COMPARATIVE EDUCATION (Assignment)

MARJORIE A. PATAL
Ph. D. in Educational Management

GENDER AND EDUCATION

QUESTIONS TO PONDER
1. How does gender affect education?
Gender can create certain expectations that affects the education of the learners,
and the pressure of gender stereotypes can often lead to misunderstanding and
misinterpretation. Gender differences may affect the learner’s educational outcome in
terms of achievement, attainment, and experiences within the schools. In certain cases,
teachers unconsciously influence gender role differences through the responses and
choices they make for and on behalf of their learners. Gender roles in education marks
how learners were expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct themselves based
upon our assigned sex. For example, girls and women are generally expected to dress in
typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing. While boys are
expected to be good in Physical Education. Thus, gender equality is necessary to achieve
social, political, and economic development goals. Education plays an important role in
challenging gender-based violence and unequal societies.
In connection with this, the Department of Education supports the Gender and
Development Program (GAD) which is a process that is empowering, equitable,
sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-
determination and actualization of human potentials. This provides and pursues full
equality and development for men and women, especially the learners. Furthermore, the
Department encourages the teachers to use differentiated, developmentally appropriate
learning experiences to address learners' gender, needs, strengths, interests, and
experiences because they recognize that differences of learners greatly affect their
learning.

COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Ph.D. Ed.M. Class

ESSAY PAPER Mid-Year Semester A.Y. 2020-2021
 2. Why is gender important to education?
Chi (2018) stated in her article that “it is important to consider the cognitive and
affective formation of gender identity which develops in early childhood.” Early childhood
forms and develop the attitudes of learners in their gender roles. Teachers, as the primary
source of education, need to have gender awareness to be open to girls’ and boys’ choices
in learning and development. They should be able to help children explore who they are,
and make connections and interactions to people around them, as well as build trust, gain
self-confidence, well-being, peer acceptance, and social support to one another. Through
gender-sensitive approach, teachers can improve equal participation of all learners in a
learning environment.
In our school, we always consider the importance of gender in education. We
prepare lesson plans that use differentiated and developmentally appropriate learning
experiences to address learners' gender. As we help the learners to realize that gender
equality is important, they gain confidence to access to essential resources such as
education, information, income, and health which is beneficial to achieve the
organizational goals of the Department of Education.

COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Ph.D. Ed.M. Class

ESSAY PAPER Mid-Year Semester A.Y. 2020-2021