Lesson 1: Gender Equity, Education, and Health
2017
This lesson plan introduces high-school students to the concept of “health” as more than an absence of disease. By analyzing the social context in Malala Yousafzai’s case, students will learn to identify the determinants of health, or the environmental, social, and economic conditions outside the body, that may affect health. More specifically, students will describe barriers that children—especially girls—face when trying to attend school, and compare and contrast the experience of girls in Pakistan and the United States. The lesson plan includes student learning goals and a suggested process for the teacher, which incorporates classroom activities, discussion questions, and related resources.
This lesson is part of the “Gender, Conflict, and Education” teaching pack, which was developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. This module focuses on the intersection of gender, conflict, and education through the experience of Malala Yousafzai, who in 2012 was shot by members of the Taliban due to her educational activism. It emphasizes the connection between education and long-term health outcomes, as well as the responses that are necessary to impact social determinants of health. The teaching pack includes an instructor’s note, a short case study on Malala, four lesson plans with supplemental exhibits, an annotated bibliography, and a select glossary of terms.
Lesson 1: Gender Equity, Education, and Health
Source:
Lesson 1: Gender Equity, Education, and Health. Gender, Conflict, and Education: Teaching Pack. Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University 2017. http://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/11650.