190056 SE Education and Gender (2024S)

In the history of philosophy and education, desire is a significant concept for analyzing the construction of the past as history and the future as a desirable narrative. As an example, the desire for democratic inclusion has been prominent in decolonial and feminist demands for a re- writing of the past. In this course, we will theorize historiography as practices of desire, studying how desiring narratives of memories, things, identities, people and ideas are at the center of an intersectional renegotiation within historical and contemporary knowledge institutions. The students will be invited to reflect on contemporary film, music and art in relation to the theoretical framework of the course.
The students acquire basic theoretical knowledge of the connection between education and gender. They can classify empirical phenomena in a social context of various inequality, difference, and power relations and critically reflect on them with regard to pedagogical practices.