scholarly journals Teaching Gender Research Methods for Leadership: Reflections from Rwanda

10.5130/aag.e ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Jaya Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Culture And Development ◽  
Gender Lens

This chapter discusses teaching and research undertaken by the author in Rwanda between 1997 and 2011. The author draws on her experiences of establishing and running an institution in Rwanda from 1997 to 1999, undertaking research for her PhD in 2000, visiting the country in 2007 to gain further insights into the reconstruction of education and in 2011 teaching at the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development. Using a gender lens, the author reflects on teaching gender research methods, the interactions with an amazing first cohort of students and the immense leadership potential shown by the students. The chapter concludes with some recommendations and implications.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Using a Feminist Pedagogical Approach

10.5130/aag.b ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Sharon M. Meagher
Keyword(s):  
Adult Students ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Feminist Pedagogy ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Paolo Freire ◽  
Culture And Development

The introduction of a pathbreaking new master’s degree in Gender, Culture, and Development required a pedagogy to match its program contents. Since the aim of the program was to cultivate the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, vision, and skills to not only implement the UN Millennium Development Goals but to set the future goals and agenda, students needed to experience an educational setting that was empowering. As such, we introduced feminist pedagogy into the first seminar, defining feminist pedagogy as the ‘extent to which a community of learners is empowered to act responsibly toward one another and the subject matter and to apply that learning to social action’ (Shrewsbury, 1997, pp. 166–173). But how do we introduce feminist pedagogy in a large class where many students had previously been subjected to the passive, rote memorization teaching utilized in most educational systems in which adult students would have participated, especially given the popularity of what Paolo Freire would call the ‘banking method of education’ in colonial regimes? We responded to that challenge by being as transparent as possible in our teaching, and by modelling feminist pedagogy in all that we did.

scholarly journals Gender and Learning in Rwanda

10.5130/aag ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Culture And Development

This book presents an unparalleled mix of aspiration and achievement, of feminist theory and practice. It does not claim to be complete or final, nor is it a snapshot of a single point in time. It falls into two parts. One part containing scholarly chapters written academics involved in developing and teaching in the innovative Master’s program in Gender, Culture and development offered from 2011 at the Kigali Institute of Education in Rwanda. The second part contains statements written by students in the first cohort, most of which have been revised and updated. All the contributions are informed by a set of common experiences, but each writer presents her (or his) own perspective. This is most clearly evident in the short chapters written by the women who brought their diverse scholarly backgrounds together in their passion for the scholarly development of other women and men, in an empowering, feminist, educational experience. This mix of experiences and the diversity of writings make the book a challenging read and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in research-based approaches to social change, the weaving of personal experience into scholarly reflections, and in insights into leaders in working towards gender equality, a policy area which affects social relationships throughout a society, including at the most intimate level.

scholarly journals Gender, Culture and Development: A South African Experience

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
G Honor Fagan ◽  
Ronaldo Munck ◽  
Kathy Nadasen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Culture And Development

scholarly journals Towards innovative teaching pedagogies in gender research: A review of a gender research methods class

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
Oludayo Olorunfemi
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Black Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Women And Gender Studies

This commentary examines the teaching of research methods in Women and Gender Studies in the Gender Studies Unit of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. It interrogates how the course has increased the awareness of students in the methods of conducting research and how the research they conduct has implications on marginalized populations. The course also highlights the need for a growing body of knowledge that engages the experience of black women in Africa and the African diaspora. The course draws the attention of students to the agency of women through the reading and teaching of various research methods in Gender Studies. An ethnographic approach is adopted using participant  observation in the course covering a period of one semester. Also, a critical perspective is applied in discussing the particular epistemological  standpoint deployed by the course instructor. In other words, the black feminist epistemology serves as an important strategy for increasing global-minded consciousness of how a course in gender research methods engages the agency of black women using Hip Hop pedagogy. Keywords: Gender Research Methods, Black Feminist Epistemology, Global-Minded, Black Consciousness, African Feminism.

scholarly journals Establishing the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development at the Kigali Institute of Education

10.5130/aag.a ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Shirley Randell
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
National Development ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Culture And Development

This chapter describes the establishment of the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development at the Kigali Institute of Education in the Rwandan context of strong support from the President, Government and international development agencies for gender equality. The Centre and its graduates have played an important role in national development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

scholarly journals Comparando Estratégias de Operacionalização de Variáveis em Relações Internacionais: a mensuração de capacidades do poder nacional

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Wagner Menezes Teixeira Júnior ◽  
Valéria De Moura Sousa ◽  
Alexandre César Cunha Leite
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Empirical Research Methods ◽  
Measurement Strategies

The present paper investigates the connection between theories and empirical research methods in International Relations. From the study of the theoretical concept of power, it compares different strategies of operationalization of its variables. The formulas of power and indices of national capabilities are analyzed We conclude that national capabilities measurement strategies can be useful pedagogically for the teaching and research in the field of International Relations.

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