Course 3: Trainings focus on personal context & transformative approach

GENERAL INFORMATION

Section 1. Strategies, tools and methods for gender equality in adult training through emotional competences

Main ideas

The main ideas to be taken into account in the course “Emotional Intelligence” are the following:

1. Shall understand the significance of Gender Equality Training in Adult Education and its impact
2. Shall understand how enhancement of Social and Emotional competences can promote positive behaviours among gender
3. Shall understand Social and Emotional Learning is the umbrella that includes competences as Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making
4. Shall identify and acknowledge empathy gaps and/ or prejudices their male beneficiaries may have against women

Aims of the course

The aims of the course “Emotional Intelligence” are the following:

• To supplement Adult Educators with innovative tools and approaches for incorporating Emotional Education in Adult Learning, thus enhancing the Social and Emotional Intelligence of Adult Learners, especially males.
• To increase the Self and Social Awareness, Self-Management, Decision Making and Relationship Skills of Male Learners in order to bridge the empathy and gender equality gap.

Section 2. Methodologies for breaking down resistance to masculinity in the Adult Education

Main ideas

The main ideas to be taken into account in the course “Emotional Intelligence” are the following:

1. Attitudes (including macho attitudes) are learned through observation of the environment and imitation. However, it is possible to change attitudes through education and, of course, through adult education.
2. Breaking through resistance to masculinity is difficult, but there are several psychological theories that explain how to change people’s (in this case, students’) attitudes.
3. Peer pressure and majority opinion are essential aspects to be able to make a student see a reality that he/she denies at that moment (such as gender inequality). This, supported by statistical resources, case studies or dynamics that encourage gender flexibilisation can be a good option to break the resistance to masculinity.
4. Psychosocial and emotional intelligence strategies also facilitate a change in attitudes and the reformulation of social stereotypes and stigmatising ideas such as machismo.
5. The power of language can enhance macho behaviour if the language is not inclusive. Therefore, if the aim of Adult Education is to break with masculinity and raise awareness of the importance of feminism, it is important to take care of the details of communication, using inclusive language.

Aims of the course

The aims of the course “Emotional Intelligence” are the following:

1. Have knowledge about the functions of emotions and cognitive theories for the change of macho attitudes.
2. Understand the importance of social influence and majoritarian influence in the process of changing macho attitudes.
3. Have the resources to demonstrate and discuss the veracity of gender-based violence as a global issue.
4. Know how to use inclusive language as a tool to promote equality.
5. Have strategies and group dynamics to make gender roles more flexible.