Unit I: Gender issues: key concepts:

• Definition of gender.
• Difference between gender and sex.
• Social construction of gender.
• Gender including transgender and third gender, sex, patriarchy.
• Gender bias, gender stereotyping, and empowerment
• Equity and equality in relation with caste, class, religion, ethnicity, disability and region.

Unit II: Gender studies: paradigm shifts:

• Paradigm shift from women’s studies
• Historical backdrop: some landmarks on social reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries with focus on women’s experiences of education (with special reference to Raja Rammohan Roy, Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore

and Begam Rokeya).

1. Commissions and committees on women education and empowerment
2. Policy initiatives (including current laws) for the recognition of the concept of transgender and third gender.

Unit III: Gender, Power and Education:

• Gender Identities and Socialisation Practices in:

➤ Family

➤ Schools

➤ Other formal and informal organization.

• Schooling of Girls and Women Empowerment

Unit IV: Gender Issues in Curriculum:

• Curriculum and the gender question
• Consideration of gender issues in curriculum framework with reference to NCF, 2005: An analysis
• Gender and the hidden curriculum
• Gender in text and context (textbooks inter-sectionality with other disciplines.
• Teacher as an agent of change

Unit V: Gender, Sexuality, Sexual Harassment and Abuse:

• Development of sexuality, including primary influences in the lives of children (such as gender, body image, role models)
• Understanding the importance of addressing sexual harassment in family, neighbourhood and other formal and informal institutions
• Agencies perpetuating violence: Family, school, work place and media (print and electronic)
• Institutions redressing sexual harassment and abuse