Working Group 9

Working Group 9

Teaching Gender & Women’s Studies

met on sunday morning 9.00-11.00 “reiger room” in the Mitland Hotel. 22 ATGENDER-members discussed the following:

1. Teaching with Gender Series :  at this moment two new volumes (postcoloniality group on “race” in Europe, on teaching gender in Southeastern Europe. During the spring conference proposals for new volumes have been discussed. The expanded editorial board consists of Annika Olsson, Andrea Peto, Sveva  Maggaragia & Nadezhda Petrova Aleksandrova ). The proposals must offer a transnational  perspective that includes European countries, and they should explicitly deal with teaching. “Teaching”  is taken in its broadest meaning: knowledge transfer inside and outside universities, training, life long learning, education permanente.

2. Tuning Gender Studies Brochure will be disseminated at a panel at the Women’s Worlds Congress (WWC)in Ottawa (July 3-7, 2011) dedicated   to Teaching Gender Studies in Europe and Asia.  A presentation for members of European parliament is planned for Fall 2011. Aina Maijo Hiltunen & Berteke Waaldijk & Edyta Just will probably present the Tuning brouchure in this panel.  All ATGENDER members who registered for WWC are invited to inform Berteke Waaldijk about their presence in Ottawa and discuss the value of Tuning Brochure in a comparative European-Asian perspective.  The Teaching with Gender Series will be presented at this panel in Ottawa as well. iltunen cons

Some editors of the first volumes have shown an interest to attend.

3. The need to make ATGENDER a meeting place to discuss and cooperate on issues related to education. Those present want to establish a Permanent Working Group on Education within ATGENDER. Its aims will be:

a)      organize events (panels, conferences, seminars, online discussions)  for ATGENDER-members to discuss and work on issues related to feminist pedagogies and/or teaching gender studies in Europe, including evaluation of good, bad & best practices in the field of gender women’s and feminist studies and related fields, the use of new technologies, evaluation of transnational cooperation (GEMMA, EGAL)

b)      facilitate staff exchanges and student mobility, between ATGENDER-institutional members.

c)       facilitate information & empower programmes in their struggles for recognition of credits, impact of Bologna accreditation of programmes evaluation of good, the use & challenges the Tuning Gender Studies Brochure offers.

d)      Convince  the ATGENDER board for the need to invest in an updated website that contains information about all programmes and courses offered by ATGENDER members.

The groups discussed in more detail proposals for the strand ‘Teaching “Gender”  across the Borders of Human, Social, Natural and Biomedical Sciences’  at the 8^th EFRC in Budapest, May 17-20, 2012.

1. The conference board is still looking for coordinators of this strand.
2. Roundtable or panels on status of teaching gender studies at universities in Europe (Bologna-impact,
3. Panels on:

• Feminist Pedagogies,
• ‘Spaces’ (libraries, documentation centers, classrooms) in teaching gender/women’s/ feminist studies,
• new technologies & distance learning in gender studies
• evaluating practices from transnational educational programmes (GEMMA, summerschools, staff mobility, EGAL) in the field of gender, feminist women’s studies and related fields (queeer, sexuality, masculinity studies)
• integration of feminist gender women’s expertise in teacher training programmes / educational degrees
• impact of Bologna-process on teaching gender, use of Tuning brochure
• case studies of teaching with the ATGENDER book series.