1. Overview Revisiting Anne Fausto-Sterling ( 5 sexes) Quiz K – 12 Education –Gender socialization as a process Identity/Identity Politics Privilege and Discrimination –Group Discussion- Unpack your knapsack

2. K – 12 Education- Curriculum Formal Curriculum –Disciplines (English, History, Math…) –Test-taking –Computers/Technology –Student/Teacher Interactions Hidden Curriculum –Traditional Gender Roles –Sexism, Racism, Classism, Homophobia –Status Quo

3. K- 12 Education- Curriculum Evaded Curriculum –Depression, suicide –Eating disorders –Body Image –Drug/Alcohol Abuse –Pregnancy –Sexuality

4. Gender Equity/Inequity in Education K- 12 through Graduate School Pedagogy Girls receive less teacher attention and less useful teacher feedback Girls talk significantly less than boys do Girls rarely see mention of the contributions of women in the curricula Female students become targets of unwanted sexual attention from male peers

5. What Works in Education Changing Content and Pedagogy –What and how we teach Wait time for responses Interactive Making information relevant to lives Emphasize work over innate abilities Study groups Cooperation

6. Identity Personal and social –Socially constructed Personal –Personality traits, upbringing, regional background, values and assumptions about the world, educational background Social –Ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality

7. Key Terms Sexism- –Prejudice or discrimination based on sex, especially discrimination against women Racism- –A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce the inherent superiority of a particular race Homophobia- –Prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality

8. Homophobia and Sexism “Homophobia works effectively as a weapon of sexism because it is joined with a powerful arm, heterosexism. Heterosexism creates the climate for homophobia with its assumption that the world is and must be heterosexual.” “It is not by chance that when children approach puberty and increased sexual awareness they begin to taunt each other by calling these names ‘queer’, ‘faggot’, pervert.’” Suzanne Pharr

9. Privilege An invisible knapsack of unearned assets and advantages Confers dominance Unconscious Myth of meritocracy White, male, hetero, middle class, able bodied