The Provincial Director of Education in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, has presented the new initiative “Claustros que coeducan”, a training that has been organized for the first time by the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) designed for all primary and secondary school teachers with the aim of eliminating gender inequalities and preventing gender violence in schools.
As he explained, twelve educational centers have joined voluntarily so that their cloisters participate fully in this training proposal.
“We believe that it is very important that this initiative is not limited only to the work done by those responsible for equality in educational centers and the co-education team formed by the equality agent and that teachers who want to join these initiatives, but that it permeates the entire educational center as part of the ideology of the center and that in the end all teachers are involved in the work for equality and the prevention of gender violence that affects our adolescents,” explained Fernández Treviño.
The Provincial Director stressed that “we wanted to bring down the reality of the violence suffered by young people today” and stressed the importance of training that addresses equality and the prevention of gender violence in a transversal way.
Lorent and Safe Training
The training, which has been divided into two phases - a first on 24, 25 and 26 June and a second at the beginning of September - will involve the forensic doctor and expert on gender violence, Miguel Lorente Acosta, and the Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation, Laura Segura Sarompas.
As Fernández Treviño recalled, Lorente was Government Delegate for Gender Violence between 2008 and 2011 and has published works such as ‘My husband beats the normal’ and ‘The puzzle’, and in addition to the training he will address the role of masculinities in the construction of an egalitarian culture.
With regard to Segura, the Provincial Director has stressed that “for many years the issue of the prevention of gender violence has been working with many formations in collaboration with other entities associations, agencies.”
This initiative will have the participation of ‘Las Cadiwoman’ in September, a group of women who “have an active pedagogy of involvement also to the cloisters, very participatory, very proactive and of a lot of involvement to the teachers”.
The Provincial Directorate valued this initiative as “new and necessary” and stressed that “we have opted for a proposal that contributes to making the work for equality a daily pedagogical practice in each classroom.”