CIDEC Seminar with Dr. Hayley H. Brooks: "Internationalizing Curriculum for Gender Justice: Inviting Transnational Feminist Media and Cultural Archives into the K-12 Classroom"
Internationalizing Curriculum for Gender Justice: Inviting Transnational Feminist Media and Cultural Archives into the K-12 Classroom
This CIDEC seminar centres on the political and pedagogical possibilities of transnational feminist curricula for gender justice in the K-12 classroom. The approach, first theorized in Brooks’ doctoral dissertation, explores the role of digital art and cultural productions made by women around the world to foster lines of solidarity in pursuit of multi-scalar gender justice. Conceptualized through a novel global ethnographic framework (Burawoy, 2000) the curricular plans seek to illuminate and connect various political, social, and cultural ontologies of diverse subjects in/across the global South and North to engender critical classroom conversations related to gender, power, violence, difference, and feminist resistance across borders.
This seminar seeks to not only share the designed curricular plans but invites students, scholars, educators and all CIDEC community members to participate in a collaborative and dialogical knowledge sharing process to reflect upon and (re)imagine the role of such an approach in constructing critical, internationalized pedagogies for gender justice in the K-12 classroom.
About the Speaker
Dr. Hayley H. Brooks
Hayley H. Brooks is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (LTA) in Social Justice Education at the 91Ö±²¥ (OISE), University of Toronto. Hayley specializes in the areas of critical international education, media and cultural studies, gender-based violence prevention education, and sociological research methods for social justice. She has delivered guest lectures, workshops, and scholarly presentations to academic and community audiences including K-12 educators in Ontario, international exchange students in higher education, international scholars and activists in violence prevention, and colleagues at the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the Association for Women and Gender Studies/Recherches Féministes, among others. Her research has been published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education, Comparative and International Education, and Annual Review of Comparative and International Education. Professor Brooks’ research and writing have received the University of Toronto’s Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence, the Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences Merit Award for research excellence, and the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education’s Dissertation Award.
