Linking Gender to Lived Experiences

Abstract

To reinforce that gender is a social identity and a social construction, students answer in-depth questions about how gender manifests in their own life. They then conduct interviews with two individuals from two different generations using the same interview guide and write a paper on how gender has or has not changed over the span of three generations....

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Sex and Gender

Resource Type(s):

Assignment

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Medium

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Students will learn that gender is socially constructed and is not static over time.
2. Students will learn that gender is a social structure that pervades many of areas of life.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. In the interview version, students write a paper comparing and contrasting their life experiences to those of others from different generations. In the reflection version, students write a paper demonstrating a deeper awareness of how gender operates.
2. By answering the in-depth questions, students reflect on how their experiences in family, employment, and education, are gendered.