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I like the thinking of Annalise De Ruvo

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Certainly the study of space puts us on the same place on Earth. In a cosmic view, we are just one humanity and all of us are passengers of the adventure called LIFE

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Certainly the study of space puts us on the same place on Earth. In a cosmic view, we are just one humanity and all of us are passengers of the adventure called LIFE!

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We join the world in mourning, condolence and concern, and we also renew our commitment to building diversity within our community and creating a safe, welcoming inclusive space in which Earth and space science – and Earth and space scientists – can thrive and realize their full potential.

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http://www.novareinna.com/bridge/laika.html

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I had immediately a good inspiration for a work i would do some time ago.
This year I teach in
predominantly female classes and I think it would be a good to work on self esteem and understand about gender balance.
They also can look at chosen documents linked into the work below:

https://padlet.com/ruggierobalice1/mrefttigeyjc

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Certainly the study of space puts us on the same place on Earth. In a cosmic view, we are just one humanity and all of us are passengers of the adventure called LIFE!

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The more awareness of women in Science and Space, I feel we can beat the stigma attached to "Space is for Boys".

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In space diversity in diminished because only your competences as a team member are important.

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Space sciences enhances our understanding about diversity, about life and ourselves.

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Understanding the diversity in universe helps us dealing with our one diversity as human beeings

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We are one humanity, we are all together on our planet and all of us need our abilities to participate in creating a better tomorrow, both in science and in everyday life.

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If our species can not reduce the different between people (gender, beliefs, etc.) never can survive. Exploring space, understanding the universe is a journey that unites us, giving humility to those you seek answers and differences cease to make any sense.

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Before the immensity of space diversity, in its negative sense, he loses sense. Need eyes and brain to visualize and understand the majesty of the universe and no matter if those eyes or the brain are related to XX or XY chromosomes. No matter what color your skin is or who it is immamorato. Counts only the curiosity and ingenuity, characteristics that are the prerogative of all kinds.

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Space science familiarize the diversity that exists between the heavenly bodies.
It also provides equal opportunity to the girls and thus would help in promoting gender balance.

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teaching in hebrew is a challange for gender equility as the language dicatates use of gender.

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I am convinced that the right path is to allow everyone to participate in all tasks. Men and Women should work all together in a way to achieve best results.

In our history we can see many important man with great achievenments but also many important wormen with impressive achievements.

Equality should always be the key to success! There is absolotely no reason to create barriers to man or women in any ways.

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Man and woman are equal or differents in the earth like in the space ...

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Man and woman are equal or differents in the earth like in the space ...

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Thoughts  about  gender balance and diversity

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is the oldest and most prestigious educational institution of Greece in the field of technology, and has contributed unceasingly to the country's scientific, technical and economic development since its foundation in 1836.Even though a few years ago female students are in the lower percentage  of the hole number of students , nowadays numbers  have changed. Recently the female students are  about 50%. Of course there is a long way to be improved about gender balance(for example about the representation of women  in the faculty of the Universities or in other scientific organizations)   but  it is obvious that the work during the last years about gender diversity gives positive results.

Space science (and generally Math and Physics) can help breaking barriers. Discussing with our students about the scientists that played a role in the history of Space Sciences could again help them realize that there should be no limit associated with our nationality or cultural background. I think that, the idea of viewing Earth from a different point of view itself helps seeing everything from a different prospective, seeing how our point of view is just our point of view. This is a big lesson itself. Things that are big here are irrelevant outside in the space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzxpqkNytF0 This is a relevant link of a Greek song (there are English subtitles). So here arises that there is room for everybody, and everybody can give his/her own contribution in terms of skills, new ideas, interpretation.

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For Space is Vastness, Balance and Diversity at their bast and most impressive

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For Space is Vastness, Balance and Diversity at their bast and most impressive

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The vastness and unique beauty of the Universe is based on diversity - and Space Exploration would turn out to be rather boring without it. So, each extraordinary piece of Universe and its research can be used as a metaphor- for diversity in universal laws is what keeps us surprised and eager to learn more all the time.
Also, the fact that space wonders and their research are something all people, of all genders, nationalities and any other differences share and communicate on is a great basis to build on a
perspective capable of broadening the mind and stimulating a sense of global citizenship in pupils.
And of course, through Space, STEM subjects can introduced in more "friendly" ways that ensure girls are involved and evolved as well as boys.

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Girls must believe they can do stem subjects  better than boys

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It was an impressing activity, so deep, captivating, real and emotional.
It could be used with high school students.

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Scientific and tecnologycal matter at school are still nowadays thouht to belong to male gender, expecially at University. During the past 20 years more and more female students have choose scientific studies at higher education. But a lot has still to be done to change radically and make this trend the reflection of a real change in the society. It's a challenge for a teacher to make female students really involved in scientific matters.
Surely the fascination of space and astronomy for youngs can help girls to approach science and tecnologyband become more and more confident with them.

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Scientific and tecnologycal matter at school are still nowadays belonging

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Science is for everyone interested about the subject...

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Science is maths and physics. the two subjects are female in Italian. ;-)

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Science is for everybody, boys , girls or people with special needs or different skin colour.....Grate example "Stephen Hawking"The uninverse itself teaches us that the sun rises every morning for all  the people on earth! We can use citizens science to proove that science is for everybody.The involving of parents is a great opportunity to have gender balance

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The intelligence is the best balance in every case.

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All ideas and activities are useful for balancing gender quality, I always try to do these steps but hardest part is “Target parents” for me. It is 21st century but we still need Hypatias…

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Girls can be as successful as boys. I believe that gender discrimination should not be an issue at all

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I think that girls and boys are equally interested in science and have the same capacity to understand it. What make the difference in the outcome is the role that a male and a female has in a society.
Stereotype are still strong in our culture. We normally think that a girl will be a mother and therefore she must find a more suitable work for her role. Therefore being a teacher, nurse ... is better than being a doctor, a pilot ...
It's time for a a change

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The history of science is an example how people from different countries, different religions with different jobs, even with a different social status or different physical condition contributed to the search of truth.
International space station is also a human victory over to discriminations on gender or skin colour, religions and so on. Teaching with space and astronomy can really help us to realise how meaningless  our differences are compared to such a vast universe.

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The earliest records of women facing the astronomical practices date back to 6000 years BC. However, it was necessary to wait for the emperor's dynasty Babylonian Sargon the Great (2334-2279), Akkad to accurately identify the first astronomer of the story: En-Hedu-Anna, who lived around 2,300 BC.

So, space can be a very interesting issue for boys and girls.

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Space is an opportunity for girls to get the first place as Mrs Hagnere!

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Equal rights, diversity, equality, gender balance, what a great opportunity to engage science, space studies, careers! Thank you for this course.

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Equal rights, diversity, equality, gender balance, what a great opportunity to engage science, space studies, careers! Thank you for this course.

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Greetings from Turku, Finland
Eija

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Many things are different from a people to another: history, language, religion, culture, art, music, but math and science are the same for everyone and they have been developed by contributions from every people on Earth. Science is the most multicultural subject at school.

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Space intrigues both girls and boys, and offers job opportunities for both. It involves STEM skills, all of which are very important in the future professions. And it provides a unique common concern to all of us, globally: How to better understand space and our role in it, as well as how to take better care of our own planet Earth.

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Aerospace engineers design, develop, test aircraft and spacecraft and supervise the production of these, regardless of gender should have knowledge of physics, fluid mechanics, propulsion, mathematics…

We have the example of Valentina Tereshkova - as a young woman, she worked in a textile mill and parachuted as a hobby.  She was chosen to be trained as a cosmonaut in the USSR’s space program. On Jun 13, 1963, she became the first woman to travel into space.

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Astronomy is great to get the kids engaged. We need to teach them that we have both gender in space careers.

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Space and astronomy interest both girls and boys equally. We just need to give them the same chance :)

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Gender balance and diversity has to have a focus in all subjects. Because it is the base of how we handle eachother. Space is a neutral subject who boys and girls in primary school will love.

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Studiing history of science (physic, biology, chemistry, astonomy) we can try to solve some issues about diversity in those days science. And also try solve this days problems in classrom, show for pupils, what science are not more for ritch man, what if you have wich to designe somthing you can do it. I think there are a lot of movies about this topic.

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Space instills interest in both boys and girls. It is universal..

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I'm going to use space films. There, boys and girls have a similar rol. But, I
'm worried about people that think that is not able to study a science career.

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Space is very captivating to both boys and girls in younger ages because they all feel fascinated about it. When we talk about it in the classroom all I can see is stars (shinning eyes) :)

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It would be good if we had statistical data about the issues mentioned in the video.

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Space sciences can help solving some issues about diversity if in our classrooms we focus on the diversity of people who worked to developed science space as we know today.

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As any other human endeavor, particularly at the forefront, you will most definitely find the risk takers stepping in first. Unsurprisingly, as any human endeavor, it takes people of all walks of life to take the path opened by others.
Me and my students are doing just that. We pay tribute to all that came before us, regardless of skin color and gender, and move on.

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Space is a subject that interests everyone in classroom, boys and girls. Usually when talking about scientists (space related or not) I give emphases on woman scientists. Although female scientists and astronauts are in fewer number, their contribute has been very important in science development. The same goes for diversity of cultures

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We had a similar conversation a few days ago in our class. Then we watched a video about how small our planet is comparing to other planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies. After talking we realised that we are all too small and our lives are too short, so we have to follow our dreams, without limits, and do our best, as long as we are on our beautiful planet.

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Both boys and girls (independently from their background) are very interested in issues about space.

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Our heart is our space. It's valuable and worthable. So we do many actions with my students having as a them our problems with refugees and about peach and war as we discussed it with our etwinning peer school of Ukraine. Our students went to the position of refugees their parents saved and helped to stand up healthy and safe and understand that we are all people equal with the same human rights, men and women and children, of every age, colour, religion, country. It's a very nice way inside actions understand how to manage be a right person faced as a teacher cultural diversity in our society.

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My class name is 'Happy stars', that's way I draw with my 3 years old kids yellow and blue stars on the classroom wall. I told them that the stars means that they could do everything: get rid of diaper, play nice with a colleague or pay attention to teacher. They should only tell themselves: I can do this (many times).

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If we look at our planet from space we see problems from a different point of view and  we can get things into perspective. When we realize that that small and fragile “pale blue dot” is our home we can better recognize ourselves as members of the same humankind.
Showing men and women collaborating in the ISS, or presenting to tle class an astrophysicist as Margherita Hack or an astronaut as Samantha Cristoforetti could foster the gender balance.

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At school we can favorite participation of all students because sharing ideas allows to growth respect. We can underline that we are all humans and part of the same planet where there are barriers any more thanks to globalization. We can consider "diversity" as an opportunity because we can take inspiration from other cultures and understand also that differences between humans are insignificant in front of all the universe.

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Space education and diversity and gender balance: one step  forward!
Universe is huge and made up of small and big differences: the balance between differences of the world'  to which we belong can be used to overcome prejudice.

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May space sciences address issues about diversity and gender balance ?I do think so. When you deal with space sciences, you face diversity at its maximum.  Everything is diverse and you discover things that you would have not ever even imagine.

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I think that space sciences can be one of the best way to address the issues of diversity and gender balance, first of all because they take children and people with immagination out of the World and aid everyone to think how wonderfull is our Earth and every thing lives on.

Experiences in space sciences bring you to feel as one of the quite 7 billion of people who live in the same little marvellous planet!

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I believe that learning about space will give students a new perspective about differences between people, and lead to discussion about diversity.

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I looked for the aerospace engineer requirements:
- being able to acknowledge the rapid innovations that occur with particular rapidity in this sector and translate them into daily practice application
- interest in the field of advanced technologies;
- Strong logical and analytical skills;
- Sense of responsibility and organizational skills (planning, distribution of work, meeting deadlines);
- Personal organization skills, determination and decision-making skills;
- Availability for human relations and the teamwork.
All these characteristics are not related to a gender: every individual can meet these requirements.

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I teach in what would be classified as an underprivileged school. Many of our students do face socioeconomic and other problems. I only found this week that the parent of a student of mine believes their child should not bother attending school as they would not amount to much anyways! What hope is there you might utter in a situation like that! But this is where education and the school can be a ray of hope and encouragement. I think the same can be said for diversity and gender balance in schools and as Science teachers we certainly need to pro active in our approach.

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for a decade, I noticed in physics and chemistry, there are always more girls who are the first in their schools and the percentage of girls who are science-oriented and larger than that of boys!

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different people, human rights on earth and space

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Space hasn't borders! Let's take inspiration for a new culture. We can consider "diversity" as an opportunuty

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What is man in the universe? I think the vastness of the universe helps to understand that all differences between humans are insignificant .....

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What does it matter if you are male or female?

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Space is for all, for anybody. There are many subjects about diversity.

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Learning about space, the universe, stars and other planets may give students a new perspective about differences between people, and lead to discussion about diversity.

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I want to share this trailer Sepideh reaching the Stars
and see the vídeos on Citizens Debate  on Space for the Europe , they are amazing.

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I do not think that teaching space science is less or more conducive to working on gender or handicap in other subjects we teach at school.
As against our teaching our work is to introduce students to the diversity of scientific careers without distinction man / woman. We are all able to be curious, to interest us to our local and distant environment. It is this curiosity that we must cultivate in our students.

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I watched these podcasts and they horrified me.

I have been teaching for 25 years and in all that time have ensured that my students'  classroom (yes, it it is their learning space!) is an inclusive environment... We do not have a gender differential in my classes.. my young adults (12-19) are individuals regardless of gender, intellect ( whatever you define that as), ability or levels of interest or commitment .. I appreciate that the socio-economic background et cetera of my students is diverse.. but it their minds, not their parent's pockets, that I am engaging with..

Shocked to the core that this still needs to be informed to teachers..

Going for a pint now, as a Man, to commiserate for narrow-mindedness that this has raised.

I urge you all to watch this:
https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/1199293160143441/

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To start with diversity and gender balance in class, we can explain that SPACE is open,  it has no barriers and boundaries at all and it also accommodates  the widest range of diversity. We should make that our students reflect on this fact.
We also can use some interesting tools from The Journey of ideas (Space Awareness) and show them how  the actual knowledgement of Space was and still is building by the contribution of scientifics from different cultures.

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Allow everyone to take part equally. Group learners in mixed teams and show different carrier paths those which are taken up by boys can be taken up by girls and vice versa. I find the space lab tours on you tube really helpful: they show men and women of different nationalities scientists working together as a great team.

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Many sequences in Carl Sagan´s Cosmos are so beautiful that make me mourn with emotion. We are a unique species in our planet and only one; we are one heart and feeling. Only together - with full understanding and full acceptance - we can advance through this beautiful adventure of life.

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As Carl Sagan said, when you see Earth from Space, you realise that there are no borders or differences between us. We are all humans and part of the same planet.

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it will be a perfect world , a world with equals opportunities for all .
Space and astronomy have a great interesting for little pupils ,  girls and boys , so as a  project it same gives to the teachers the opportunity to go through the diversity to the equal rights .
there are a lot of women , peoples from different countrys who working in sciences for space and astronomy , so the project may work as a good tool

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I think that Space is open to anyone, we can eliminate the barriers and we do the love and don't the wars

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I think that space is free so there isn't disparity in it!
In space there is a lot of diversity, but there is no discrimination.

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Barriers like gender, race, ethnicity, cultural stereotypes or disabilities are established and we must deconstruct these ideas.
Parents, school and the environment have a strong influence on the children, in the way they think about the others.
Space science (with the men and women who contribute daily to the knowledge and progress) can help breaking this barriers.

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Space is open to anyone. There are no discriminations. Especialy with citizen science and the internet anyone can contribute or learn about space.

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In my opinion, science has an important role in real life, both for the planet and for the population and should not be made the difference between men and women.
But students are influenced in great part by their parents to pursue a career as theirs, without regard to what they want  to pursue in life and  after a period ,  a lot from these   take it from the beginning.
Should be  offered equal opportunities and chances both women and men.

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I think that the space is place for all!

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OŠ "Mladost", Osijek
t should avoid stereotypes and make space and attractive career a little more girls.

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I think that nowadays, in our "occidental" culture, and for my experience, when you are a member of a scientific team, it doesn't matter your gender or nationality, I mean, your ideas and positions are important as the other ones. What could be more difficult is to become a member of a sceintific team expecially at higher levels.

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I think that space sciences can address these issues about diversity and gender balance. The guidelines mentioned in the video are the key.

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I think gender stereotypes are socially established and it is important to deconstruct these ideas. When having students that have these stereotypes embedded I propose them a video animation by Bruno Bozzetto (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcaDhRu1AQ) and after ideas are shared on class. It has been a way to overcome this social "habit". After this first approach students work in groups to present peers with a female scientist and her work. Space is still a curious subject to students so usually both genders are involved on the class activities and proposed tasks.

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Women vs Men - Funny Animation by Bruno Bozzetto

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Someone must think diversity  as a meaningful challenge. Coping with diversity is a way of looking at different people in another way, especially in times when schools are being confronted with inclusion and pupils with lots of diverse backgrounds. Via space sciences a teacher  has the opportunity to deal with many diversity issues (racial, ethic, cultural,gender issues) since diversity is more than skin color!!!

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Environment and as a result space is equally concerned by all people. They all have right to learn about the world they live and the factors which affect it. So a learning process about space is basically organised so that it can be refered to all people indepedently their gender.

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Inclusive Education is about diversity as the one thing we all have in common. As far as I'm concerned this is the force of the being human.

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We live under the same sky, we see the same Sun, same Moon. We admire the same rainbow. Surrounded by the vastness of the univers , floating in space on our beautiful planet we are all important no matter gender, nationality... My students are 7 years old. They have no problems with differencies between girls and boys. The girls always have the same tasks as boys. You maybe smile but the only gender situation met in my activity were...the colors! Sometimes  children think there are boys' colors(blue) and girls' colors(like pink). I show them the rainbow. The gorgeous colors of the rainbow are for all of us.

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I think we are all equal and science is a useful way to understand that there is no difference among people. We all have red blood. The most important thing is to respect each other

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Learning about space, asthe universe in which we all live, is somehow a starting line that equalizes the chances of all competitors in the terrestrial journey through life.

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I truly think that Space Science can be a resource for both teachers and students to understand that each one of us has got a special place in the universe and can contribute in different ways to better our world.

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I think that when you are in a space station  it counts only the skills that everyone has, you do not give much importance if you are male or female. The important thing is to trust each other and work together, and these skills are very important for our students.There is a union and exchange of views that are absolutely significant for the progress of science.

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I think that when you are in a space station  count only the skills that everyone has, you do not give much importance if you are male or female. The important thing is to trust each other and work together, and these skills

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I think that when you are in a space station  it counts only the skills that everyone has, you do not give much importance if you are male or female. The important thing is to trust each other and work together, and these skills

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Definitely I think that space sciences may address these issues about diversity and gender balance.

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I think that when a group of people are working on a problem, they forget everything and collaborate in order to find a solution. For this reason Space Sciences are very important to give us a lot of situations and problems to work with.

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I think that space sciences may adress these issues about diversity and gender balance, talking about female scientists' life and researches, for example Margherita Hack, or about women who took up their space career, for example Samantha Cristoforetti.

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I try to teach my students, knowing that all they are different, using diferentes activity acessible by all students. Each citizen is a possible scientist or another carreer in space because the girls and the boys have the same potential and equity in their carrers in space.