Course Description:

This course will compare contemporary critical and feminist pedagogies with their currency in education and examine how they can be used to inform research designs and methodologies. The course will draw upon historical and contemporary perspectives to provide lenses for analyzing various research issues and concerns in relation to educational policy and classroom practice. Inclusion and transformation are critical elements of the concepts developed in this course.

As suggested by de Lauretis above, “gender” is a social construction. In this course, we will examine how issues of gender influence educational policy and practices in areas such as: curriculum development, teaching strategies and approaches, selection of curricular materials, interactions with colleagues and students, and selection of areas of teaching specialty, e.g., early childhood, technology, administration. The projects emerging from this course will be grounded in the participants’ personal and contextual experiences and will offer opportunities for interweaving theoretical and practical issues.