94414 - Gender Studies in Education

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student: - will be aware of contemporary theories and best practices of gender mainstreaming in education; - will be able to consider cultural facets of socialization to gender roles and how they interact with the organization of school and with hidden curriculum, also in an intersectional perspective; - will be able to compare projects and actions in gender mainstreaming in education, both inside and outside the classroom.

Course contents

The course will be held in English during the Second Semester (Spring 2024). It is an interactive course and will be organized into multimedia modules.

Contents will include:

Sociological perspectives on sex, gender and sexual orientation;

Major theories and empirical research on socialization to gender roles;

Gender Pedagogy;

Gender mainstreaming in education;

Anti-gender campaigns across European countries;

Best teaching practices on gender mainstreaming in education in an intersectional perspective.

 

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Readings/Bibliography

Recommended texts (both mandatory and optional) are taken from books and articles all available for free in the Department  library and online (access with University of Bologna credentials in almastart.unibo.it). They include chapters from:

• The Gender Question In Education: Theory, Pedagogy, And Politics, edited by Diller, Houston, Morgan, Ayim, Westview Press, 1996. (Log in with your Unibo credentials and type the title of the book on https://almastart.unibo.it/ for the online fulltext)
  

• The Sage Handbook of Gender and Education, edited by Skelton, Francis, and Smulyan, London, Sage, 2006. (Log in with your Unibo credentials and type the title of the book on https://almastart.unibo.it/ for the online fulltext)

• Feminist Postcolonial Theory. A Reader, edited by Lewis and Mills, Taylor and Francis, 2003. (Log in with your Unibo credentials and type the title of the book on https://almastart.unibo.it/ for the online fulltext)

• Gender. In World Perspective, by Connell and Pearse, Polity, 2014. (Log in with your Unibo credentials and type the title of the book on https://almastart.unibo.it/ for the online fulltext).

• Body and Gender, by Sassatelli and Ghigi, Polity, 2024.

• Institutional reports and texts online.

 

Teaching methods

Interactive class; multimedia; e-learning environment; group work; case study discussions.

Assessment methods

Written test (three open-ended questions). An example of a test will be provided in Virtuale platform before the first session of exams (around the month of June, since the Second Semester courses are held in Spring.

 

Teaching tools

Readings; movies and videos; online material.

Office hours

See the website of Rossella Ghigi