IFM-SEI

Rainbow Resources: Compasito Companion on sexuality and gender

Published: 28 Jun 2011, 13:58 | Author: The Administrator

In Autumn IFM-SEI will publish a handbook on gender and sexuality education with children, providing methods and information for leaders on the topic.

The handbook will compliment Compasito, the Council of Europe’s human rights education manual for use with children. Compasito does not tackle the issues of gender and sexuality and there are few resources in the world that look specifically at these issues with children (under 13 years). Rainbow Resources will be the first of its kind!

Rainbow Resources is an IFM-SEI led project, with an expert team leading the project from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Lithuania. Queer Easter 2009, Queer Easter 2010 and Winterschool 2010/11 (another international seminar at the Kurt Loewenstein House, with the theme of feminism on this particular seminar) laid the foundations of the project by producing activities for children on sexuality and gender roles. Our British comrades, the Woodcraft Folk, are hosting their international camp (called CoCamp) this summer.

CoCamp will be a platform for trialling these activities and leaders who are not familiar with the topic will be encouraged and supported in running workshops from Rainbow Resources with children on the camp. The manual will be published in Autumn 2011.