Teaching Resources | User Guide

Please note that these pages are a work in progress and feedback is welcome

This section of the G/WS Africa website is dedicated to teachers of Gender and Women's Studies in African higher education.

You can find a range of resources here which have emerged from discussions between G/WS teachers, at different universities on the continent. Teachers were brought together through a series of workshops and online discusssions. In order to function as resources for all those interested in G/WS teaching, these discussions have been detailed so as to provide an introductory set of resources for thinking about teaching G/WS in Africa. The key principle behind the design of this Teaching Resources site is one that emerged during this process with the recognition that:

The processes involved in teaching/learning are as important as the “content” of materials used for teaching.

This Teaching Resources site is designed to disseminate the key insights and resources developed during the TRG dialogue and to develop a process of discussion about G/WS teaching in a way that can include new, e-based, participants. The aim is to stimulate and support G/WS teachers to design and develop pedagogic practices (including curricula) which are contextually relevant, locally meaningful and internationally valuable. In keeping with our commitment to supporting the development of G/WS in Africa, we would value comments/input on what you find in these pages and plan to develop these Resources accordingly.

What you can find within these Teaching Resources

These resources look at three critical areas:

1. Feminist Thought in African Contexts.

2. African Feminist Pedagogies.

3. Developing context-relevant resources in key G/WS areas: sexuality, culture and identity and law and politics.

Key essays, participative teaching exercises, and bibliographic resources are embedded dialogue about Talking G/WS Teaching. Some of these resources can be accessed directly, through clicking on the left-hand icons:

Essay on Contextualising Feminism in the African Academy

Essay on African Feminist Pedagogies

Extra Resources - Sexuality, Culture, Identity

Extra Resources - Law and Politics

These resources grew out of the TRG discussions, but can be read as stand-alone documents as well.

We recognise the dilemma of bibliographic information being supplied with no access to the resources contained in them and the potential frustration this can cause. For this reason we have supplied links within these pages to full-text resources which are available online (both within this broader website and through freely available online journals). Please visit the supplementary information section to access these.

In this resource you'll find the following icons:

These denote key resources, exercises and bibliographical listings respectively.