Faculty
Gender violence in digital environments: reflection from UC Education
The activity was organized by the Gender Sub-directorate and included a presentation by academic Valentina Errázuriz.
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.
Gender Sub-Directorate Guides (Project funded by FONDEDOC 2024 'Gender Mapping for Initial Teacher Training')
We present the Gender Approach Guidelines in the Faculty of Education
From the Gender Sub-directorate of the UC Faculty of Education, we make these essential guides available to our entire community to build more just, inclusive and violence-free educational spaces. Download them below:
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
Faculty
Activities
The “Bodies, Sexuality and Physical Education” conversation was held at UC Education
The day of reflection and dialogue on diversity in initial teacher training was supported by the Gender Sub-directorate, the Student Development Sub-directorate and the Physical Education and Health Career Directorate.
Activities
Gender Sub-directorate organizes workshop on sexual diversity and university community
The workshop was attended by officials and professionals from various areas of the faculty, who reflected on key issues related to gender diversity.
Activities
Workshop “Body-Territory” with Martina Angela Caretta: Feminist Methodologies to Promote Social Justice
The event brought together PhD students and academics with the aim of exploring new methodologies to address social justice from a feminist perspective.
Activities
Gender Sub-directorate Workshop Addressed Role of Feminist Pedagogies in Building Societies
The meeting was led by Lelya Troncoso, a feminist social psychologist from the University of Chile.
Activities
Contemporary debates on sexual consent, reporting of violence and punitivism
The talk entitled “The limits of (sexual) consent, reports of violence and the problems of punitivism” was organized by the Gender Sub-directorate of the UC Faculty of Education, the Gender Sub-directorate of the Faculty of History, Geography and Political Science, and the Gender Equality Unit of the School of Civil Construction.
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.
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Team
Ana Luisa Munoz
Deputy Director of Gender
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
Associate Teaching Professor
Study areas: History and educational policy, Heritage, memory and education
Andrea Orellana
Alumni UC Education Faculty, Professor at CREE College.
