Tackling crises and generating hope: including and transforming intersectional gender relations through education.
NW 33 Gender and Education
Crises of different magnitudes have emergent consequences and unanticipated impacts upon intersecting gender inequalities. Post-hoc analyses often recommend education-based remedies, e.g., through curricula or female education. Conversely, economically driven changes are regularly forward planned with policies involving the transformation of gender identities sometimes in built (e.g., women, black and minority ethnic groups having new identities within STEM). In both cases, initiatives often fail, and some identities are ignored by educational policies (e.g., disabilities, sexualities and women of colour). How can educational researchers, educators and activists follow international policy guidance, inbuild intersectional gender strategies and generate hopeful educational futures?
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