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About Gender Studies | What Will Students Learn | How it will be Approached
About Gender Studies | What Will Students Learn | How it will be Approached
About Gender Studies
About Gender Studies
Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) aims to inculcate values and build social and emotional competencies in students. This in turn is to develop them into good individuals and useful citizens in a fast changing and globalised world. It develops students through an understanding of the values that define society, inspiring them to show concern about the world they live in, and demonstrate empathy in their relationships with others.
What will our students learn?
What will our students learn?
The elimination of discrimination is both a moral and legal issue - and has to start in the classroom. Teaching about gender is increasingly looked to as a way to make progress in a global culture that continues to uphold men and boys' entitlement to control women and girls.
The schooling system is one of our most precious assets and holds the key to improving the lot of women and girls in the workplace, family and culture. Empowering girls to fight their individual battles, unsupported, can only take us so far. Educating men and boys – in particular – to question the beliefs, customs, traditions on which the oppression, abuse and devaluing of females depends, is a profoundly necessary step.
Gender Studies addresses life issues such as equality and responsibility within relationships, marriages and families.
How will Gender Studies be approached in Schools?
How will Gender Studies be approached in Schools?
1. Use of Questions
1. Use of Questions
Women’s/Gender Studies examines significant differences in the experiences of the sexes in Canadian society and globally. Some of the important issues of life revolve around being a man, or being a woman, or inhabiting a post-binary invention of gender. The program addresses common experiences as well as those of difference – being differently abled, or shaped by experiences in a different country or culture. A number of courses in this program focus on the female half of humanity and other groups that are often under-represented. The program encourages students to reassess the conventional disciplines, helping to integrate questions of gender, sexuality and ‘difference’ in the curriculum.
2. 'Fleshing' of Ideas in 'Real World' Learning Contexts
2. 'Fleshing' of Ideas in 'Real World' Learning Contexts
Example 1
Students will research on a particular gender studies topic, identify a problem they wish to solve and propose a workable solution. They will be quizzed about their research by their classmates and teacher, checking on veracity of their research and applicability of their solutions.
Example 2
In 'Campaign for Change!', students will organise and run a campaign to challenge long held perceptions they believe should no longer be allowed to persist. Issues tackled could range from sexism to increasing the number of girls in STEM fields to workplace inequality.
References
References
- UN Sustainable Development Goals - https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5
- We Need Gender Studies to Battle Inequality - https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/blog/2012/feb/08/gender-studies-inequality-boardroom
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