63.023 - Exploring Boundaries and Counternarratives of Women and Globalized Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium fleshes out the intersection of gender, education, and globalized spaces by foregrounding concrete examples of women’s life experiences at this intersection. We explore boundaries, divides, and counter-narratives of women in accessing education, power, rights, and resources. Papers in this session focus on the experiences of women in developing human rights discourse, accessing technology for education, and playing larger practical and conceptual roles in academic research and leadership.We create a broader picture of the ways that geography, gender, and culture shape the lives of women and the ways that we do and think about education. We highlight research on globalized education and gender by centering voices of women from multiple and contrasting geographical locations.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Cameron R. McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Counternarratives as Political Contestation: Life Narratives of Three Female Drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 - Rebecca Adami, Stockholm University

• Mobile Phones and Education: Civic Education by Kenyan Women's Rights Groups - Brenda N. Sanya, Colgate University

• Technography of Information and Communications Technologies for Education: Targeting Girls' Education - Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University; Mohja Jerbi, Texas Tech University

• "Leaning In" and Deficiency in Gender Discourses of Success in Higher Education - Liz Jackson, University of Hong Kong

• Transgressing the Power/Powerless Divide: Hong Kong Women Academics - Sarah Aiston, University of Hong Kong