EEP406 GENDER & SCHOOLING (8)
Enrolment restriction(s): available to Bachelor of Education (Primary), Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood), Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) and Bachelor of Primary Education Studies students only.
This subject develops the students’ understandings about the research into the social and historical construction of sex and gender.  We will examine the role of language in constructing gender as well as some feminist and post-structural critiques of these constructs.  Students will interrogate the interaction of sex and gender in the school and classroom, with an emphasis on an early childhood, primary or high school setting.  Research and observation techniques will be used by students in their special interest area.  Students will be encouraged to investigate their own experiences and to develop strategies for change in schools and centres.