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Choice Is a Privilege: Gender, Education and Nigeria's New Curriculum | Norms Lab Podcast Episode 24

Nigeria’s new Basic Education Curriculum now requires every student to graduate with at least one practical or trade-related skill, a significant step toward expanding learning pathways and economic opportunity for students across the country. As this reform takes root, one important question emerges: when girls choose a skill, what shapes how free that choice really feels, especially when it goes against social expectations? In many Nigerian schools: Some skills quietly feel “appropriate” for girls Others are seen astoo masculine or out of place Parents, teachers, and unspoken social norms shape decisions before a girl even speaks In this episode of The Norms Lab Podcast, Anjola Ayodele speaks with educationist and Safe Schools expert Blessing Tarfa Mam about: What this curriculum reform is working to achieve How gender norms shape students’ realities inside classrooms What it would actually take for skills education to expand agency for girls What gives Blessing hope that things are changing Join us as we reimagine what the freedom of choice truly means amongst gender-biased social norms, as the new education curriculum is implemented. 🎧 Listen on Spotify HERE: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6aey... Subscribe for more conversations on social norms, gender, and agency in West Africa. Chapters 00:00:00 – Introduction & Guest Welcome 00:00:55 – Parental Expectations and the Promise of Education 00:03:40 – Gender Norms and Cultural Expectations in Education Choices 00:07:39 – Safety, Male-Dominated Fields & Barriers for Girls in STEM and Technical Careers 00:08:39 – From Education to Employment: Schooling and Economic Independence 00:16:23 – How Do Peer Norms Influence Student’s Decisions? 00:21:17 – What Still Feels Stuck Despite The Curriculum Reform 00:22:38 – Education Reform & Sector-Level Transformation 00:32:25 – Moving from Survival to Fulfillment Through Education #GenderAndEducation #NormsLabPodcast #educationreform #gendernorms #socialnorms #UBEC #NewEducationCurriculum #nigeria #NigerianSchools #nigerianstudents #education