How gender issues are integrated into studying and teaching varies in terms of content, intensity and extent, according to the specific academic field. Gender issues are – or, at least, should be – a core ingredient of degree courses in the social and cultural sciences, since the category of gender is essential for analysing social and cultural phenomena. In the field of engineering or natural sciences, on the other hand, the situation is different, since it is not immediately apparent what the gender issues are in these subject areas. Nevertheless, research in women's and gender studies has demonstrated that incorporating gender issues into these subject areas also is essential to their continued development.
Interdisciplinary gender issues. For all courses of study, we identify three key gender issues which, if properly integrated into the curriculum, will help to make the degrees (and the professional qualification) balanced and sensitive as regards gender. The three key gender issues are • Professional issues relating to the discipline • Scientific critique of the discipline • Production and use of academic research in the discipline … [continues]
Integrating gender research into degree courses.As courses are reorganised into a consecutive two-tier system within the framework of the accreditation process, the question arises of how gender issues can be systematically integrated into both teaching and studying. Four approaches are possible: an interdisciplinary approach, an integrative approach, an individual explicit approach, and an explicit approach ... [continues]