Gender theory course makes teachers more alert
The course Gender Theory and Gender Equality in Technical Higher Education is primarily aimed at teachers at KTH and aims to ensure that university education, learning environments and organization are characterized by equality. Anders Clenander, teacher at the CBH School, has completed the course.
“I think the course is good way to make you see things in a little more alert way. You do a lot of habitual things that you don't think about that have to do with gender,” says Anders Clenander.
He has been a teacher at KTH since 1995 and has been a member of the CBH School's JML group since its inception.
“When I joined this group I looked around and saw that this course was newly started. It felt relevant to take it, to gain more knowledge and be able to use it in the group.”
Anders Clenander has always been interested in gender issues, but the course nevertheless became something of an eye opener and the tools he got he brought with him into the classroom.
“If you start to reflect a little bit about it, you may notice that being passive can also be a choice. In the classroom you might let the boys be heard the most, and that’s also a choice: that you do not try to support the girls more.
The course was given for the first time in 2019. It is a higher education pedagogical course that is primarily aimed at teachers, but, as far as possible, other employees who are involved in teaching at KTH can attend the course. It is given once a year and spans seven full days during a semester.
“It's very good with these full days. There are guest lecturers and themes for some days and then you sit in a circle and talk. It becomes less stressful, you are very present and you become quite open with what you know and feel,” says Anders Clenander.
Read more about the course (in Swedish): www.kth.se/social/course/LH225V