Activities of Ernest MARAGALL related to 2014/2250(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Empowering girls through education in the EU (short presentation) ES
Amendments (11)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to develop or reinforce national regulations with a view to counter the negative influence on stereotyped gender roles, coming from values transported through media and advertising, and which too often undermine the school work on these topics;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of informal education when it comes to tackling the issue of beliefs and traditional practices imposing limitations on girls in education, and calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to education for boys and girls regardless of their ethnic, national, cultural or religious framework, in order to achieve real gender equality in education; stresses the need for a special focus on groups suffering from multiple forms of discrimination, including migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, young carers and others;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of informal education when it comes to tackling the issue of beliefs and traditional practices imposing limitations on girls in education, and calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to education for boys and girls regardless of their ethnic, national, cultural or religious framework, in order to achieve real gender equality in education; highlights the utmost importance for girls not to be forced by a family decision to give up school before completing secondary level studies;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that gender equality in education must include a range of issues, such as literacy including media-literacy, bullying including cyber-bullying, homophobic violence, hate speech, human rights and civic education;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses the need to provide a rights- based and gender-sensitive learning environment for all learners both in terms of curriculum and pedagogy, where children (and girls in particular) can learn about their rights and experience democratic processes in schools as well as informal learning environments;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. EmphasisAcknowledges that teachers play a major role in the formation of educational identities and have a significant impact on aspects of gendered behaviour in school; recalls that much has still to be done to empower teachers on how towith regard to how they can best promote gender equality; insists, therefore, on the need to ensure comprehensive initial and ongoing equality training tofor teachers at all levels of formal and informal education, including peer- learning and cooperation with external organisations and agencies; stresses that girls need to have positive female role models in schools and universities;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the importance of health and sexuality education which must include teaching boys and girls about relationships based on equality, consent, respect and reciprocity, as well as teaching about women’s and girls’ rights, including reproductive and sexual health and rights, as a tool to prevent stereotypes and violence against women and girls;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to remove barriers to access to formal and informal education, as well as to lifelong learning, by improving awareness and guidance, providing financial support as well as support such as childcare and care for the elderly to enable women and men to participate in lifelong learning, adopting an intergenerational approach and fostering the role played by European Institutions;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Considers that the EU structural funds and particularly the European Social Fund must support educational projects with a gender-specific nature as well as gender-sensitive educational structures;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Recalls that educational strategies aiming at ensuring gender equality must actively include boys and men.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States to integrate childcare and early childhood education in their educational systems to enable children to receive gender equality based education from an early age onwards and to enable parents to balance work and family life.