Executive Director of the Nongovernmental Organization E TEA, Agon Ahmeti, has raised concern about the content of Kosovo’s textbooks and school rags, saying they continue to contain gender stereotypes, sexist and patriarchal languages.
Through a Facebook post, Ahmeti has estimated that despite efforts to improve, textbooks continue to be the source of stereotypes affecting the formation of children’s thinking.
He has stressed that, along with measures for protecting women and punishing perpetrators of violence, it is necessary to intervene in the educational system.
In these days of riots against women’s murder, protection, sentences, and dismissals are necessary. But just as necessary is the intervention at the foundation, Ahmeti wrote.
According to him, patriarchal thinking is built from childhood, by determining gender roles, parents ‘ expectations of child behavior, and the examples they see and hear in the family and school.
Ahmeti has said that the school should be the institution that challenges and eradicates this thought, not reinforces it through texts, rags and teaching.
If we cannot intervene in the family, and if the family is a den of patriarchal mind building, the State must have the school as a challenging and thoughtless institution. Of course, the school, through texts, rags, and teaching, serves to reinforce and reproduce it, as it continues to serve, he wrote.
In the end, ETEA’s executive director has warned of the consequences of failing to address prejudices in the educational system.
Otherwise, any prejudice the school leaves unpaved gives way to inequality and oppression in the next generation has ended Ahmeti. /Telegraph/