Research
UC Education academics are awarded FONDEDOC in a project on gender perspective and initial teacher training
"Mapping Gender for Mainstreaming in Initial Teacher Training Programs" is the name of the project.
Gender Branch
MISSION
The main purpose of the Gender Subdirectorate is the coordination of comprehensive and three-sector training initiatives on gender issues in the community of the Faculty of Education, UC, considering the areas of initial teacher training, academic development, research and links with the environment.
VISION
The Gender Subdirectorate of the UC Faculty of Education aspires to build an educational community that considers the gender perspective in all areas of academic work and initial teacher training, promoting tri-state participatory actions that guarantee training and coexistence free of violence and gender discrimination.
Objectives
- Tri-estionally sensitize the academic community of the Faculty of Education on the issues of gender and sexual diversity, in the training processes, research, relationship with the environment, generating spaces for information, dialogue and discussion.
- Facilitate and promote the implementation of institutional gender policies in force at the Catholic University in the local space of the Faculty, articulating its work with the Gender Directorate, Unit for Prevention and Support for Victims of Violence and other relevant units.
- Build spaces for dialogue on policies and gender relations that allow the community to reflect on problems and gender violence from a structural, historical and socio-cultural perspective.
- Design and implement strategies to mainstream the gender perspective in the curriculum of the undergraduate and postgraduate careers and programs taught by the Faculty of Education, seeking to eradicate sexist practices both in teaching spaces, pedagogical practices, as well as in the production and dissemination of knowledge.
- Create and strengthen networks with local school communities, and national and international institutions in order to offer continuous training on gender and education issues.
- Disseminate the production of knowledge on gender and education developed by the faculty and researchers who lead the discussion at a national and international level.
Features
Design and development of strategies and activities to sensitize and educate the community of the Faculty of Education on gender issues, and problems of inequality, violence and discrimination.
Creation of spaces for information, dialogue and discussion on gender and education issues, and problems of inequality, violence and discrimination.
Strengthening of institutional gender policies through joint initiatives with the other gender units of the University.
Generation of informative and pedagogical material on institutional policies on gender and gender violence relevant to the faculty of education.
Promotion of the gender training program for academics and teachers developed by the university in the Faculty of Education.
Design and development of courses, workshops and specific training programs on gender issues for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Support and promotion of activities on gender led by students of the faculty in order to build spaces free of violence.
Promotion of research and literature on gender and education to the community of the faculty.
Creation and strengthening of collaboration networks on gender issues at the institutional, national and international level.
Creation of training spaces on gender issues to offer the national education system and continuous training education.
News
Research
Activities
Workshop on “Good labor treatment with a gender perspective” was held at UC Education
Led by the psychologist specializing in gender, Francisca Garrido, the workshop focused on understanding violence from a gender perspective and proposed strategies to promote an inclusive and respectful work environment.
Activities
REDOFEM gave a workshop on “Pedagogy and gender in the classroom”
The workshop aimed to provide faculty students with tools to teach with a gender perspective, recognizing and eradicating gender biases in pedagogical practice.
Activities
Gender Subdirectorate organizes workshop on the value of gender analysis in investigations
The workshop, led by Claudia Matus and Valentina Riberi from the Educational Justice Center, provided a space for reflection and strengthening the gender perspective from the early stages of the research.
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Team
Ana Luisa Munoz
gender deputy director
Professor of History, Geography and Civic Education at the Universidad de la Frontera. She has a Master's in Education from UC and a PhD in Educational Culture, Politics and Society from the State University of New York.
Global Advisor
Errazuriz, Valentina
Assistant Professor
Study areas: Diversity and inclusion in education, Citizen Education in the school system
Ramírez, Cecilia
Assistant Teacher
Study areas: History and educational policy, Heritage, memory and education
Barrientos Saavedra, Pablo
Andrea Orellana
Alumni UC Education Faculty, Professor at CREE College.
