Earlier this month Gender and Education Association Gender Equality Leadership in Schools (GELS) Network members led a panel discussion of the film ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry. The film is an incredible narrative account of second wave feminist activismContinue reading
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GEA Conference 2017 Update
Update from the Lead of Gender and Education 2017 Middlesex Conference Organising Team, Professor Jayne Osgood. More information can be found here via The theme for the upcoming GEA 2017 conference has been finalised as Generative Feminism(s):Continue reading
Developing Critical Feminist Sex Education in Teacher Training Institutions (Scotland and China)
The Gender and Education Association has kindly funded research visits between Beijing Normal University and Strathclyde University, in order to pump prime the new research project ‘developing critical feminist sex education in teacher training institutions’.Continue reading
Brexit and The Rise of Right-Wing Populism: a Politics of Othering
Over the last week, members of GEA’s executive committee have been sharing their views on Donald Trump’s election success; Andrea Peto started by examining how Trump’s win was a boost for illiberial regimes in Europe. JessicaContinue reading
Donald Trump Wins US Election: GEA Members Respond
Today, GEA members are responding to the news that Trump has won the US presidency. Andrea Peto started us off by musing how Trump’s win is a boost for illiberial regimes in Europe. GEA Chair, JessicaContinue reading
Donald Trump Wins US Election: GEA Members Respond
Calling out Trump Pedagogy: Turning the 2016 USA election into a teachable moment Jessica Ringrose and Victoria Showunmi, UCL Institute of Education Many teachers at schools and universities internationally have been asking how toContinue reading
Donald Trump Wins US Election: GEA Members Respond
The news that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States has left many shocked and outraged with Twitter hashtags such as #NotMyPresident starting up and protests in 25 US cities, including New York.Continue reading
GEA Conference 2017; News and CfP
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 11th International Biennial Gender & Education Association Conference: Generative Feminism(s): working across/within/through borders Middlesex University, London. GEA is thrilled to announce that the 11th International Biennial conference will be hosted by Middlesex UniversityContinue reading
Feminist Readings/Lectures Féministes – A Room For Reading
The Feminist Readings Network provides a space to explore the question of reading with feminist thought, art and pedagogy. We’re delighted to have been awarded funding by the Gender and Education Association to further developContinue reading
Where you inspired by Judith Butler in the 1990s?
Today GEA brings our readers something slightly different to sink your teeth to! Eva Bendix Petersen, PhD, Professor of Higher Education at Roskilde University in Denmark is seeking participants for a small study investigating the relationship between time,Continue reading