Education seen through women’s eyes

Seminar by ELP's Education Working Group

Venue:
Czech Trade Unions House (DOS)
Nam Winstona Churchilla 2
Prague

Documents

Speaking about education means pointing something essential in society: formation of personalities of citizens and printing a mark in collective culture.

For years, neo-liberalism has a distraint on educational systems in Europe. Results: a school policy which destroys the social cohesion, ruins public services pushing more and more to individualism, to personal success.

A policy carrying a model of society centered on the man, white, heterosexual, Christian (in most of European countries) and on a single family model. We are with favour of an open school, which includes all the differences.

A school which eliminates the sexist vision of society, which eliminates the gender stereotypes and which rebuilds a social model in which men and women have the same legitimacy as individual people. A school where respect of differences of all forms of sexual identity is the basis of a dialogue and of the construction of a jointly society.

A political reflection about education from the women’s point of view about the models given and ‘prescribed’ by the society of today represents an opening for projects of a different world in which everyone has the right to speak, where equality of rights is the same for all.

A reflection with this approach points on educational systems from the point of view of sex and class. It is a problem of social and cultural policy.

Registration: Please print and fill in the form on the right and send it via email to: daniel.sheffer@european-left.org or Fax: +32 (0)2 502 01 73


Programme

Languages: English, French, and Czech

Saturday, 14 March


8.30 – 9.00: Welcome

9.00 – 9.15: Opening

9.15 – 10.45: Historical glimpse of construction of gender

Adriana Sabaté, educator – Spain
Eva-Liisa Raekallio, educator – Finland

10.45 – 11.15: Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00: Women, formation, social rights and success in society

Adoración Guamán Hernandez, Labour law prof – Spain
Aliki Kosyfologou, political scientist, phd gender issues – Greece

13.00 – 15.00: Break

15.00 – 16.30: Women, science, research

Birge Krondorfer, philosopher Frauenhetz/Wien – Austria
Janine Guespin, prof. fee of biology – France

16.30 – 17.00: Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00: Women in the educational system in Czech Republic

 

Sunday, 15 March


9.00 – 10.30: Practical Experiences

Monica Pasquino, philosopher and president S.C.O.S.S.E. – Italy
Delegate of PCF – France

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00: Conclusion