For the final project, you will develop a lesson plan that addresses a topic related to gender and education. You will plan a lesson for one classroom period or afterschool activity, etc (not a whole course!). The assignment offers an opportunity for you to use course ideas to address a topic or issue that interests you. Your lesson plan must relate to the broader area of gender and education, but you are not limited to the specific topics covered in class. Be creative!
Drawing upon course material, your lesson plan will discuss the importance of this issue and identify key learning objectives. You will specify a particular age group and setting (e.g., classroom, after school program, community organization),
Project Outcomes:
• encourage students to reflect upon the processes through which we learn gender;
• build conceptual tools for analyzing and assessing the interrelations of gender and education;
• explore how children and young people construct gendered identities in school, as well as how these identities are shaped by policies and social structures. then describe the lesson in detail. Altogether, final projects should be 5-7 pages, double-spaced (12-point font, 1-inch margins), plus References.
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT COURSE FOR COURSE CONNECTION::::
This course explores the relationship between gender and education, focusing primarily on the context of K-12 schooling in America. Through multidisciplinary approaches, students examine how gender is socially constructed within schools. We explore the performance, regulation, and contestation of gendered identities and sexualities in education – through peer interactions, disciplinary practices, policies, and social structures, as well as through broader socio-cultural norms. How do the media, family life, and government shape patterns of gender and sexuality within schools? How do gender and sexuality intersect with dynamics of age, race, class, and disability? Throughout the course, students will engage with a range of contemporary debates surrounding issues of gender and education.