Lesson 4: Advocating for Change
2017
This lesson plan encourages students to apply the lessons learned from Malala Yousafzai’s advocacy work by designing their own effort to tackle barriers to girls’ education. Using a structured activity plan, students break into small groups to reflect on the problem, identify potential barriers to addressing it, develop a visual “pitch” poster that proposes a solution to a funding institution, and offer thoughtful comments or questions to their peers’ proposals. The lesson plan includes student learning goals, suggested discussion questions, and a detailed process for the teacher to facilitate this interactive exercise.
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 4: Advocating for Change
Source:
Lesson 4: Advocating for Change. Gender, Conflict, and Education: Teaching Pack. Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University 2017. http://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/11656.