Civic Engagement in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom:
Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation
A Faculty Development Workshop, November 2010
About the Workshop
Hosted by the National Women's Studies Association with generous support from the Teagle Foundation, this workshop is designed to generate critical reflection and discussion among scholars and teachers in Women’s and Gender Studies in order to better understand the actual practices and effects of civic engagement and to improve student learning. For the purposes of this workshop, “civic engagement” is defined as individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern from feminist and intersectional perspectives. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual voluntarism to organizational social justice work to electoral participation.
Held during the NWSA annual conference in Denver, this workshop is designed to explore civic engagement in light of issues of power and privilege and to apply intersectional analyses of race, class, nation, sexuality, gender, and globalization to teaching about this important topic. Participants will develop, apply, and assess model civic engagement pedagogies in partnership with the grant’s existing working group members and must be committed to applying quantitative evaluation tools in their Spring 2011 courses and reporting those results to NWSA.
