Overview

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Overview

• Revisiting Anne Fausto-Sterling (5 sexes)
• Quiz
• K 12 Education
• Gender socialization as a process
• Identity/Identity Politics
• Privilege and Discrimination
• Group Discussion- Unpack your knapsack

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K 12 Education- Curriculum

• Formal Curriculum
• Disciplines (English, History, Math)
• Test-taking
• Computers/Technology
• Student/Teacher Interactions
• Hidden Curriculum
• Traditional Gender Roles
• Sexism, Racism, Classism, Homophobia
• Status Quo

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K- 12 Education- Curriculum

• Evaded Curriculum
• Depression, suicide
• Eating disorders
• Body Image
• Drug/Alcohol Abuse
• Pregnancy
• Sexuality

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Gender Equity/Inequity in EducationK- 12 through
Graduate SchoolPedagogy

• Girls receive less teacher attention and less
  useful teacher feedback
• Girls talk significantly less than boys do
• Girls rarely see mention of the contributions of
  women in the curricula
• Female students become targets of unwanted sexual
  attention from male peers

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What Works in Education

• Changing Content and Pedagogy
• What and how we teach
• Wait time for responses
• Interactive
• Making information relevant to lives
• Emphasize work over innate abilities
• Study groups
• Cooperation

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Identity

• Personal and social
• Socially constructed
• Personal
• Personality traits, upbringing, regional
  background, values and assumptions about the
  world, educational background
• Social
• Ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality

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Key Terms

• Sexism-
• Prejudice or discrimination based on sex,
  especially discrimination against women
• Racism-
• A belief that race is the primary determinant of
  human traits and capacities and that racial
  differences produce the inherent superiority of a
  particular race
• Homophobia-
• Prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual
  people and homosexuality

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Homophobia and Sexism

• Homophobia works effectively as a weapon of
  sexism because it is joined with a powerful arm,
  heterosexism. Heterosexism creates the climate
  for homophobia with its assumption that the world
  is and must be heterosexual.
• It is not by chance that when children approach
  puberty and increased sexual awareness they begin
  to taunt each other by calling these names
  queer, faggot, pervert. Suzanne Pharr

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Privilege

• An invisible knapsack of unearned assets and
  advantages
• Confers dominance
• Unconscious
• Myth of meritocracy
• White, male, hetero, middle class, able bodied