Gender, Devlpmnt and Education

Catalog description

This course will examine critical issues related to the influence of gender and development on education. Drawing from diverse societies, in historical and geographical terms, the course will work with a global focus whereby the attempt is to understand the multi-layered power relations framing the teaching-learning of “gender” in formal educational as well as larger cultural contexts. Selected questions include: What implications does gender have for socialization, institutionalized schooling, and lifelong learning? How does gender manifest itself in educational practice, policy, and theory in industrialized societies? In what ways have feminisms contributed to an awareness and eradication of inequities, discriminatory practices, and injustice arising from gendered structures, ideologies, and processes underpinning educational and developmental processes? Offered: periodically.