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VISIBLE 2006-2008

Visible

Co-ordination of Visible

University of Helsinki
Palmenia
Centre for Continuing Education
P.O Box 58 (Nilsiänkatu 3)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

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Project Manager Sirkka Perttu
sirkka.perttu@helsinki.fi

The aims of Visible -project are:

  • to get a general picture on the situation of gender sensitive teaching and counselling in vocational education in each participating country e.g. is the gender approach in curriculum of teacher education, is it a part of curricula of schools
  • to review, evaluate and summarize all the relevant Leonardo da Vinci projects, European Social Fund, Equal and other national projects on gender sensitive teaching and counselling in all the participating countries as well as at European level in general
  • to identify promising practices and pedagogical methods of gender sensitive teaching and counselling
  • to identify what kind of support teachers and counsellors need in order to include gender approach in their work successfully
  • to draw recommendations for future actions such as research and training programmes and material and influence education policy makers to include gender sensitive approach in curriculum of teacher and counsellor training