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| 0608-4404-01 | Gender & Education- Feminist Pedagogy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Feminist pedagogy discuss issues of women's representation in education and in general society especially of teachers, school directors, mothers and girls. It tries to create an in depth transformation in educational practices that relates to education for boys and girls, women and men. Practices of inequality are manifested in knowledge, curriculum, school subjects, values, teacher-students relationships, teaching-learningmethods, school administration, holidays, school ceremonies, language, texts and more. Feminist pedagogy relates to both formal and non-formal education and power structure of the hegemony vs. marginalized groups as manifested in through culture in patriarchal society. The course will examine the implementation of different feminist theories in education, it will view the educational methods that are used in the feminist liberatrion as juxtaposed to traditional ways of education. It will discuss the gendered power hierarchy in education in light of various concepts such as: the canonical knowledge, women ways of knowing, what's " normal" and "natural", women voice. Feminist education projects in Israel and in the world will be presented and feminist methods of education will be applied.