Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
4-1-2012
Publication Title
PS - Political Science and Politics
Abstract
The New Research on Gender in Political Psychology Conference brought together new and experienced teachers with interests in gender politics. The conference session Teaching Gender throughout the Curriculum generated a great deal of discussion concerning the pedagogical practice of gender mainstreaming. Gender mainstreaming-the integration of gendered content into courses required for a major-was recognized as one of 11 recommendations for reforming the undergraduate political science curriculum in the 1991 APSA report Liberal Learning an The Political Science Major: A Report to the Profession (popularly referred to as the Wahlke Report). Little information is available on the prevalence of gender courses in the undergraduate curriculum, but the data that does exist suggest such courses are uncommon (Brandes et al. 2001). We found virtually no data on the practice of gender mainstreaming in political science and little data in the way of assessing the impact of gendered content when students are exposed to it. This absence of data suggests gender mainstreaming has not emerged as a serious priority for curricular reform.
Volume
45
Issue
2
First Page
238
Last Page
243
DOI
10.1017/S1049096512000042
ISSN
10490965
Rights
© 2012 American Political Science Association.
Recommended Citation
Cassese, Erin C.; Bos, Angela L.; and Duncan, Lauren E., "Integrating Gender into the Political Science Core Curriculum" (2012). Psychology: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/psy_facpubs/83
Comments
Archived as published. Open access article.