Gender, Mathematics and Technology in Education

Submitted by chronaki on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 11:47
Course Code (in greek): 
ΠΑ0911
ECTS Units: 
5
Semester: 
8
Professor: 
Chronaki Anna

Course Description

The course aims to discuss the premise that gender is not a neutral analytical category and that, genealogically, the male-female dichotomy has been a formatting power for governing and controlling subject behavior serving to fabricate certain subjectivities. Such processes were also carried through the imposition of scientific, and mathematics related, discourses and other mechanisms such as measuring or political arithmetic that, until today, influence processes of subjectification through curricula practices and classroom biopolitics. The course focuses on questions such as: How gender, historically, tends to formulate the ways we relate with certain types of knowledge and pedagogy in the fields of mathematics and technology? How a gendered focus may allow us to express alter-pedagogies that encounter children’s desire for learning in these stereotypically masculine domains? What type of discursive and non-discursive codes and norms (e.g. myths, narratives, representations, images, biopolitics, disciplinary and regulatory practices, resistance, border experiences) enclose or liberate our relations with such knowledge spaces?

Learning Outcomes

Students, having participated in this course, will be able to:

  • become knowledgeable about how gender matters in the domains of mathematics, technology and education
  • learn about how discourses of gender and science tend to unfold together
  • explore gendered spaces in mathematics education and technology use
  • understand the potential cracks and lines of flight that may help to disrupt hegemonic discourses, hierarchies and stereotypes

Evaluation

The course evaluation considers the critical reading of texts, the undertaking of small-scale research-based writing and the presentation of final work. These might be combined with written exams.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars where texts are being discussed, collaborative group work, presentations, inviting scholars.

Course material available at: https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/ECE_U_230/