Dr. Desai will present a free public lecture on gender transformative education (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY/FILE/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
What is the role of education in repairing injustice, and how does a gender transformative approach align with these aims?
Guest speaker Dr. Karishma Desai will deliver a lecture titled “Gender Transformative Education: Potentials and Possibilities of a Feminist Reparative Education” as part of the UWindsor Faculty of Education’s invited speaker series on June 4 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Desai, an assistant professor of educational theory, policy and administration at Rutgers University in New Jersey, applies feminist and anthropological lenses to understandings of how gender and racialization are conceptualized and negotiated in educational spaces with a focus on the United States and South Asia.
In her lecture, she will explore gender transformative education (GTE) as an emergent framework for challenging inequitable power relations, gender binaries and oppressive systems at their root, arguing for GTE’s potential in repairing these injustices.
“Dr. Desai is widely recognized as a thought leader bringing critical anti-racist and decolonial perspectives to study the framing of girls in comparative and international education and analyzing their portrayal vs experiences of schooling in neocolonial contexts,” says Faculty of Education professor, Dr. Catherine Vanner.
Vanner is hosting the guest lecture with the support of the Faculty of Education’s Research Committee.
“Amidst a global gender backlash and the dismantling of conventional systems of international politics and development, her work is highly relevant and will speak to scholars across social sciences, particularly in anthropology, sociology, critical and interdisciplinary studies, political science and, of course, education,” Vanner adds.
This free lecture is open to the public and will take place in the Leonard and Dorothy Neal Education Building, Room 2223. All are encouraged to attend.