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Schools have a critical role to play in changing the wider cultural attitudes that underpin family violence.

Schools are centres of learning, workplaces, and community hubs. Everyone who is involved in a school community deserves to be treated respectfully and equally, and has a responsibility to behave in a way that promotes values of respect and gender equality.

Modelling and enacting respectful, gender equal behaviours, combined with classroom learning, has been shown to achieve significant change in attitudes and behaviours within school communities.

By embracing a whole-school approach that encompasses students, teachers and all school community members, we can embed a culture of respect and equality across all facets of school life from classrooms and staffrooms, to the sports field and events.

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Students

Respectful relationships education is most effective when it includes teaching that supports students to understand and analyse gender roles, norms and healthy relationships in age-appropriate ways.

Secondary School

Relationships and consent

Healthy relationship boundaries and skills.

Masculine stereotypes

Challenging and reframing gender stereotypes.

Gender roles and norms

Disassociating character traits from gender norms.

Relationships power and control

Recognising unhealthy relationships.

Bystander action

Teaching ‘purpose before popularity’.

Learning stream

Whole school approach to change.

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Primary School:

Gender roles and norms

Disassociating character traits from gender norms.

Power and control

Recognising unhealthy relationships and what to do about them.

Bystander action

Teaching ‘purpose before popularity’.

Learning stream

Whole school approach to change.

Click here for more primary school information

Parent, Families and School Community

Schools are centres of learning, workplaces, and community hubs. Everyone involved in a school community deserves to be treated respectfully and equally, and has a responsibility to behave in a way that promotes values of respect and gender equality.

There are a number of ways parents, families, and the wider school community can make change in schools by modelling, living and promote gender equality and make change in schools:

Work proactively as a school community to support gender equality and respectful relationships.

Communicate with, and engage, families and the wider school community to proactively prevent gender-based violence and support respectful relationship education.

Establish a program of gender equality and respectful relationship- focused activities within the school and school community.

Forge partnerships between your school and organisations in your wider community that provide education about the prevention of – and response to – violence against women.

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Teachers and educators

Studies have shown that modelling and enacting respectful, gender equal, when used in combination with classroom learning, can achieve significant change in attitudes and behaviours within schools.

By embracing a whole-school approach that encompasses students, teachers and all school community members, we can embed a culture of respect and equality across all facets of school life from classrooms and staffrooms, to the sports field and events.

Schools can make change by allocating financial, staffing and planning resources to promote gender equality and respectful relationships, and include key issues and actions in annual strategic planning.

Teachers and educators can make change by incorporating teaching into their syllabus that supports students to understand and analyse gender roles, norms and healthy relationships in age-appropriate ways.

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More learning:

Respectful relationships

  • Our Watch
  • DVRCV Stories About Abuse From Men
  • DVRCV Stories About Abuse From Young People
  • DVRCV What’s OK At Home
  • Love – The good the bad the ugly
  • Napcan – Love Bites Respectful Relationships Program

Whole School Approach

  • White Ribbon – Breaking the Silence Schools Program.

Gender norms

  • Tomorrowman & Tomorrowwoman – Schools Programs

Gender equality

  • ABC – How to teach students about gender equality.
  • Our Watch – Change the Story
  • The Equality Institute – Services promoting equality and prevention of violence toward women and girls

Bystander action

  • Doing nothing does harm.
  • Pedestrian TV – Here Are A Coupla Pointers To Help You Call Out Disrespectful Behaviour.
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