GENDER ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL POLICY

PUBAFFR 352

Examine women, gender, and sex and their interactions with public policy. Learn about equality, liberty, feminism, and intersectionality, whether these concepts should be incorporated into policymaking, and if so, how that can be accomplished through gender mainstreaming and gender policy analysis. Examine specific policy areas focused on women's social, economic, and political citizenship to understand the causes and consequences of gender discrimination. These specific policy areas include poverty, women's labor market participation, immigration, reproductive rights, sexuality, gender-based violence, climate change, transportation, and peace and security. Understand how gender is embedded in the politics of policymaking, and what strategies have been successful in achieving more gender-equitable policies across the globe.

CURRIC/GEN&WS 760

A poststructural feminist analysis of educational discourse and practice; examines selected sex/gender issues in curriculum and instruction; explores some implications for classroom teaching of the complex interrelationships between sex/gender, race, social class, sexuality, and ability/disability.

EDPOL/GEN&WS 560

Examines the relationship between gender and education and explores notions of gender as socially constructed categories and identities. Identify the ways schools (re)produce and mediate gender identities and explore the experiences of students. Draws on critical and feminist perspectives to analyze the ways gender intersects with understandings of identity performance and expression such as masculinity and femininity, as well as at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in schooling processes.

GEN&WS 925

Research seminar on gender and global issues.

EDPOL/GEN&WS 160

Explores how gender, sexuality, and gender identity are conceptualized, practiced, protected, and policed in K-12 schools and in out-of-school contexts in the United States and globally. Examines how gender, sexuality, and gender identity intersect with race, class, language, nationality, and religion to shape the experiences of school-age children and youth.