Educational Resources
Educational Resources
Education is an important mechanism for the social, emotional and psychological development of young people, and schools have a pivotal role to play in supporting students and transforming the root causes of GBV, and deconstructing stereotypes, roles, and gender norms start at school.
Have a look at our wide range of educational resources and useful materials available for students, teachers and school staff, support service professionals, as well as families and caregivers, focused on prevention, information, awareness-raising and support.
Education is an important mechanism for the social, emotional and psychological development of young people, and schools have a pivotal role to play in supporting students and transforming the root causes of GBV, and deconstructing stereotypes, roles, and gender norms start at school.
Have a look at our wide range of educational resources and useful materials available for students, teachers and school staff, support service professionals, as well as families and caregivers, focused on prevention, information, awareness-raising and support.
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Glossary of terms
- Emotional well-being: The ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt to stressful situations.
- Psychological resilience: The process and outcome of successfully adapting to challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility.
- Emotional abuse: Belittling, humiliating or undermining a person’s sense of self-worth/self-esteem (e.g. constant criticism, verbal insults, name-calling, etc.).
- Gender equality: The concept that women and men, girls and boys have equal rights, conditions, treatment and opportunities for realizing their dreams and achievements at full potential.
- Gender identity: Each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth (male or female).
- Gender-based violence (GBV): Violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender (being a boy or a girl for instance), because of this person gender identity or because of the appearance, expression, hairstyle, behaviour or clothing for instance. In gender-based violence are rooted many other problems in the adult years, like domestic violence for example: GBV has different forms, in different ages.
- Gender stereotypes: Gender stereotypes are preconceived ideas whereby males and females are arbitrarily assigned characteristics and roles determined and limited by their sex.” We understand gender as being non-binary, therefore gender stereotypes are being referred to all genders.
- Non-binary: a term that describes someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Instead, a nonbinary person may define their gender identity and experience outside of these binary terms.
- Teen-dating violence: The type of gender-based violence that occurs between young people who are, or who were once in, an intimate relationship.
- Bullying: A form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort.
- Cyber bullying: Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets.
- Cyber harassment: Harassment by means of email, text (or online) messages or the internet.
(Sources: EIGE, APA, youth.gov)
Glossary of terms
- Emotional well-being: The ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt to stressful situations.
- Psychological resilience: The process and outcome of successfully adapting to challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility.
- Emotional abuse: Belittling, humiliating or undermining a person’s sense of self-worth/self-esteem (e.g. constant criticism, verbal insults, name-calling, etc.).
- Gender equality: The concept that women and men, girls and boys have equal rights, conditions, treatment and opportunities for realizing their dreams and achievements at full potential.
- Gender identity: Each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth (male or female).
- Gender-based violence (GBV): Violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender (being a boy or a girl for instance), because of this person gender identity or because of the appearance, expression, hairstyle, behaviour or clothing for instance. In gender-based violence are rooted many other problems in the adult years, like domestic violence for example: GBV has different forms, in different ages.
- Gender stereotypes: Gender stereotypes are preconceived ideas whereby males and females are arbitrarily assigned characteristics and roles determined and limited by their sex.” We understand gender as being non-binary, therefore gender stereotypes are being referred to all genders.
- Non-binary: a term that describes someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Instead, a nonbinary person may define their gender identity and experience outside of these binary terms.
- Teen-dating violence: The type of gender-based violence that occurs between young people who are, or who were once in, an intimate relationship.
- Bullying: A form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort.
- Cyber bullying: Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets.
- Cyber harassment: Harassment by means of email, text (or online) messages or the internet.
(Sources: EIGE, APA, youth.gov)