This course aims to provide students with an overview of topics, controversies, and positions on the role of gender in education and to examine with students issues, research, theory and policy on gender and education from a historical, political and contemporary perspective. With reference to their personal experiences and observations, students will examine intersections of gender with class and ethnicity in different social mechanisms through which the patterns of educational inequality are changed or reproduced. Students will also discuss implications for gender research in school achievement, peer interaction and socialisation, teacher-student interactions, hidden curriculum, knowledge production and distribution in higher education, divisions in schooling across cultures and teaching as work. More generally, gender effects in socialisation and schooling are analysed for their implications for individuals, society and culture.

CILO-1: Understand sex, gender, and sexuality. CILO-2: Analyze gender and sexual issues in institutions (work and family). CILO-3: Analyze gender and sexual issues across the curriculum and instruction in schooling. CILO-4: Understand how the gendered oppression is produced and reproduced. CILO-5: Promote critical thinking. CILO-6: Recognize the pedagogical approaches to gender equity. CILO-7: Adopt actions to liberate the oppressed.