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Gen<strong>de</strong>r Studies and Teacher Education:<br />

A Proposal<br />

Allen T. Pearson<br />

Patricia T. Rooke<br />

university of alberta<br />

Although gen<strong>de</strong>r studies have become a central concern in Canadian universities through<br />

women’s studies programs or programs in feminist theory, they have not influenced<br />

courses and programs in faculties of education to the extent they should. We propose the<br />

“mainstreaming” of gen<strong>de</strong>r studies and argue that courses and programs should be<br />

reconceived and reconstructed to incorporate the findings and approaches <strong>de</strong>veloped in<br />

feminist and women’s studies. We talk of “gen<strong>de</strong>r studies” because, unlike “women’s<br />

studies,” we are not advocating a separatist strategy and do not propose a particular<br />

theor<strong>et</strong>ical framework, as may be suggested by “feminist” theory. We justify mainstreaming<br />

gen<strong>de</strong>r studies in teacher education programs because they can contribute to the<br />

general education of teacher candidates and can help <strong>de</strong>velop the attitu<strong>de</strong>s, knowledge,<br />

and skills central to the practice of teaching.<br />

Bien que les étu<strong>de</strong>s axées sur la notion <strong>de</strong> sexe soient <strong>de</strong>venues une préoccupation majeure<br />

dans les universités canadiennes par le biais <strong>de</strong>s programmes d’étu<strong>de</strong>s sur les<br />

femmes ou sur les théories féministes, ces étu<strong>de</strong>s n’ont pas influencé les cours <strong>et</strong> les<br />

programmes dans les facultés <strong>de</strong>s sciences <strong>de</strong> l’éducation autant qu’elles auraient dû. <strong>Le</strong>s<br />

auteurs proposent l’intégration <strong>de</strong>s étu<strong>de</strong>s sur le sexe <strong>et</strong> soutiennent que les cours <strong>et</strong> les<br />

programmes <strong>de</strong>vraient être repensés <strong>et</strong> restructurés afin d’incorporer les conclusions <strong>et</strong> les<br />

approches issues <strong>de</strong>s étu<strong>de</strong>s féministes <strong>et</strong> sur les femmes. <strong>Le</strong>s auteurs parlent d’“étu<strong>de</strong>s<br />

sur le sexe” parce que, contrairement à ce qui en est pour les “étu<strong>de</strong>s sur les femmes,”<br />

ils ne prônent pas une stratégie séparatiste <strong>et</strong> ne proposent pas un cadre théorique particulier,<br />

comme le suggère peut-être la théorie “féministe.” Ils justifient l’intégration <strong>de</strong>s<br />

étu<strong>de</strong>s sur le sexe dans les programmes <strong>de</strong> formation <strong>de</strong>s maîtres en affirmant qu’elles<br />

peuvent contribuer à la formation générale <strong>de</strong>s étudiants-maîtres <strong>et</strong> ai<strong>de</strong>r au développement<br />

d’attitu<strong>de</strong>s, <strong>de</strong> connaissances <strong>et</strong> <strong>de</strong> compétences essentielles à la pratique <strong>de</strong> l’enseignement.<br />

In the broa<strong>de</strong>st context of that word, teaching is a political act; some person is choosing,<br />

for whatever reasons, to teach a s<strong>et</strong> of values, i<strong>de</strong>as, assumptions, and pieces of information,<br />

and in so doing, to omit other values, i<strong>de</strong>as, assumptions, and pieces of information.<br />

— Florence Howe, Myths of Co-Education (1984)<br />

In 1990/91, the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of<br />

Alberta faced the a number of r<strong>et</strong>irements and asked wh<strong>et</strong>her it should seek new<br />

414 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 18:4 (1993)

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