2025 EDGE701E1 Gender and Education

Course outline: Gender and Education (EDGE 701) 2025

Lecturer: Prof Shakila Singh

Office: Cf141

Email: singhs7@ukzn.ac.za

 

Module Information:

1. Module Name

Gender and Education

 

 

2. Module Code

EDGE701E

3. Credits

16

Compulsory or Elective

Compulsory

4. What other modules are linked

Gender Regimes and Justice

Gender and Educational Management

Gender, Curriculum and Identity

5. NQF level

8

 

 

6. Type of Learning

Contact

Disciplinary: Study of Education

Pedagogical knowledge

Education

7. Mode of delivery

Face-to-face Contact mode of delivery to full-time and/or part-time students.

8. Programme (s) on which offered

B Ed Honours

9. Pre- and Co-requisites

None

 

DP requirements:

75% attendance of planned lectures as per the attendance register.

10. Module Aim

This module introduces students to feminism, its origins, politics and key features. It examines the concept of gender. It explores how gender operates in education (particularly in school settings), both within the hidden and overt curriculum and aims to get students to reflect on their own practices and institutional locations.

 

 

11. Module Content

Students will engage with theories of gender in relation to the curriculum, become familiar with South African policies and guidelines on gender and schooling, critically consider gendered practices in school that lead to bullying and violence and understand the connections between gender, sexuality and HIV.

 

 

12. Module Description and Purpose

This module is the discipline-specific module and is one of four core modules of the Discipline of Gender Education. This is the first of four core modules making up this teaching specialisation. Students must complete all four modules for Gender Education.

 

 

 

 

Module Design

13. Learning Content

CONTENTS OF EACH SECTION

Topics:

Date

Topic

 20 February

Introduction to the module

 27 February

Introduction to Gender:

  13 March

Exposing gender stereotypes

 20 March

Gender  stereotypes in education

 27  March

Gender theories

 10 April

Presentations of personal narratives

 17 April

Introduction to feminism

  24 April

Boys, Masculinity and Schooling

 22 May

Gender, Sexuality and Schooling

 

29 May

Academic writing

5 June

Preparation for the group presentations

12 June

Gender Violence and schooling

19 June

Group Presentations

25 June

Group Presentations

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

14.  Learning Outcomes

 

·       Demonstrate familiarity with key concepts of gender as a social construction and of gendered subjectivities through the everyday experiences in their institutional locations. 

·       Reflect on their own educational experiences at school as learners and teachers and make connections to how their experiences both challenge and disrupt gender norms.

·       Demonstrate an understanding of the major theories of gender and sexuality  in relation to schooling.

·       Apply their knowledge of gender and sexuality to make connections  to gender violence in educational institutions.

·       Use oral and written communication skills to make arguments, examine evidence and creatively advance this field of inquiry

·       Work collaboratively to identify a gender issue and develop a creative awareness intervention

 

 

 

15. Teaching Approach and Strategies

Contact Mode- lectures, discussions, student presentations

 

 

 

16.  Assessment approach and feedback

 

Being a continuous assessment module, this module focuses on assessment for learning that incorporates ongoing guidance and an assessment of knowledge and skills acquisition by students with the goal of achieving the intended outcomes by the students. Within this strategy, students are given extensive feedback on their draft submissions, with a view to guiding the learning process.

 

 

17. Assessment method and % weightings  Continuous assessment 100% e.g.: research based group work tasks 25%, classroom presentations 25% and an essay 50%.

Total: 100

 

 

 

18. Consultation Times: To be negotiated with the class