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Teachers are hard to change (or are they?)

Talking to teachers isn’t easy. Not because they aren’t approachable, but because they have years of experience that we, as young adults, often feel we can’t challenge. How do you tell someone who has spent decades in a classroom that the world they’ve taught in is changing? That the students they see today are different from the ones they taught five or ten years ago? That their instincts, shaped by years of experience, might need a shift?
It’s uncomfortable. It’s intimidating. But it’s necessary.

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Safeguarding Classrooms Project Booklets, Pratisandhi

BTS of Transforming Education: Volunteer Training for “Safeguarding Classrooms”

On 27 July, Pratisandhi’s team of volunteers underwent Educator Training to prepare for our upcoming project – Safeguarding Classrooms. Let us look at what went on behind the scenes to help us promote our message of Gender-Transformative Education across schools!

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Comprehensive Sex Education: Still a Distant Dream?

The New Education Policy 2020 has been all the rage recently. Earning several accolades for reform and improvement, it still misses the mark with respect to one issue- comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible sexual education. Click here to find out more about how this new policy continues to propagate the stigma around sex.

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The Road Not Taken: NCERT Inclusivity Manual

The Road Not Taken: NCERT Inclusivity Manual In Indian schools and institutions, the meaning of ‘inclusiveness’ often gets lost as a principle and value the schools wish to abide by. However, in practice, schools often become the epicenter of discrimination and prejudices in action towards pliable juveniles that often scar them for life.  We often

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How Effective Is School Menstrual Hygiene Management?

How Effective Is School Menstrual Hygiene Management? Winkler (2020) puts the discussion about menstruation in the intersection of class, caste, physiology, psychology, and sexuality into the academic collection Beauty in Blood. The range of topics which it brings into its ambit puts it down clearly that the act of making policies for menstrual hygiene management

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Vex-Ed About Sex-Ed: An Interview With Mallika and Vartika

Vex-Ed About Sex-Ed: An Interview With Mallika and Vartika Saairah Mehta had the opportunity to interview the co-founders of a sex-ed organization, Vex-Ed, Mallika Bawa, and Vartika. Mallika and Vartika attended school together and have been friends ever since. Mallika studies zoology at St. Xaviers University, Mumbai, and Vartika studies biomedical sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Vex-Ed

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