Gender SWG (2012-2016)

 

Convenors: Adelina Arredondo (adelinaarredondo@yahoo.com), Christine Mayer (christine.mayer@uni-hamburg.de)

The Gender SWG 2015 Annual Report is available here.
The Gender SWG 2014 Annual Report is available here.

Description: Historians of gender and education are finding the concept of transnationalism very useful for a deeper understanding of historical change and situations. Transnationalism addresses networks, ideas and practices which transcend national boundaries yet are linked to them and can affect and reflect national developments. Its study illuminates the fluidity of concepts of gender, education, culture and nation in time and space and the significance of individual or group action – a factor which allows the role of those usually marginalised within power structures to be better appreciated. It also raises questions across the continents concerning internationalism, globalization, colonialism and/or post-colonialism, contentious terms which again concern power relations. Thus, this focus should appeal to a wide range of historians and regarding to the relationship gender and education in history, it could cover:

  • The significance of transnationalism as an organising concept in gender and education history.
  • A critique of gendered historical terms, language and symbols and exploration of how they are transferred, transformed, imposed or resisted in their passage across borders and in different times and contexts.
  • Methodologies and theoretical approaches for exploring the interrelation of transnationalism, gender and power in gender and education history.

Proposals related to this range of issues may be submitted by anyone active in this research field. The meetings of the SWG are similarly open to everyone interested in questions of gender. Publications in a variety of formats are being considered (as themed or special journal issues or standalone books).

For Ruth Watts’ Bibliography of Gender-topic articles in Paedagogica Historica, 1994-2012, click here.

For Ruth Watt’s history of the Gender SWG (1994-2012), presented at the 2012 ISCHE meeting in Geneva, click here for the paper, and here for the accompanying powerpoint.