BreakOUT the Glass Ceiling (EN-CUR-375)

This learning scenario focuses on invisible women and the invisible barriers that women have broken throughout history.

Students will learn to create a breakout game to be played by their peers while they work on biographies in a collaborative and creative way in their English lessons. They will also develop awareness about copyright issues and use the knowledge acquired in other subjects like philosophy and Science Culture.

At the end of the learning scenario, students will reflect and think about solutions related to the topic SDGs 5- Gender Equality.

This learning scenario has been developed during the English version of the “Europeana in your classroom: building 21st-century competences with digital cultural heritage (Rerun)” online course. The course aimed to improve teachers’ understanding of cultural heritage in order to efficiently integrate it into their lessons and practices. The courses can be accessed here.

Author: Idoia Zapirain Karrika

Age of students:16-18

Subject and Topic: English, Scientific Culture, Philosophy/ Invisible Women

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CC BY 4.0: the featured image used to illustrate this article has been found on Europeana Collections and provided by the Wellcome Collection.

anetaszadziewska says:

January 17, 2021 at 10:56 pm

This comment is based on an implementation of the learning scenario “BreakOUT the Glass Ceiling” written by Idoia Zapirain Karrika. In December 2020 I met with students aged 13 using the Microsoft Team platform. These were two on-line lessons in the school library. I prepared a lesson called “Invisible Ladies and Girls”. This lesson focuses on invisible Polish women and is based on a Polish book “Damy, dziewuchy, dziewczyny. Historia w spódnicy” (“Ladies, Girls. History in the Skirt”.) The author of the book is a Polish journalist and writer Anna Dziewit-Meller. During our literacy and media lesson we talked in the Polish language and we made some exercises using English. Our aims were to get to know interesting but forgotten women who are important for Polish and European culture, science and history. The next aims were to encourage discovering important persons thanks to Europeana and around yourselves, reflect and think about solutions related to the topic – gender equality. First, I presented a book with a short comment. I showed some posters from Europeana too (examples: Izabella Czartoryska, Jadwiga Andegaweńska, Barbara Hulanicki). Students didn’t have a book, so they listened to audiobooks on You Tube. In addition, students also developed awareness about copyrights issues. Next the class worked in groups. They listened to one of the book’s chapters dedicated to different women. We used materials created by a publishing house (Barbara Hulanicki, Simona Kossak, Zofia Stryjeńska, Izabela Czartoryska, Jadwiga Andegaweńska, Henryka Pustowójtówna). Next they worked on biographies in a collaborative and creatively way using the Google document entitled Notes created by the teacher – Idoia. After working on biographies in a collaborative and creatively way in their on-line lesson students shared their work in class and got feedback from their groups. They could present two points about their chosen persons (Who was she? Her impact on society. Why is she important for you?). I sent all the information from students to the whole class by Wakelet. In the end I suggested looking at the Google map of our city and searching for streets called to honor women. They read surnames. It was not obligatory homework too. Students could look for information about some of them. They expressed a desire to talk with mothers and grandmothers about gender equality in the past. My students liked the lesson a lot and said they had learnt a lot of new things in a creative way. After winter holiday we will talk about experience of woman in own families. Students will create a new materials about invisible women of city.

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