Closing the Gender Gap in Humanities Education
Format
Workshop
First Presenter's Institution
Princeton Public Schools and the New-York Historical Society
First Presenter’s Email Address
katiedineen@princetonk12.org
First Presenter's Brief Biography
Katie is a Social Studies teacher at Princeton High School in New Jersey. She is pursuing an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction at the University at Buffalo with a research background in Educational Psychology. Equity and abolitionist pedagogy is at the center of her practice, professional development, and post-graduate work.
Location
Session Two Breakouts
Strand #1
Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership
Strand #2
Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership
Relevance
Head: It is crucial for young women to see themselves in the figures that are centered in K-12 humanities curricula in order to recognize their own agency. This workshop aims to provide educators the tools they need to empower students through diverse women's representation in history, literature, and art.
Heart: WAMS supports the meaningful integration of women with historically marginalized racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, sexual, and gender identities in existing humanities curricula. Not only have WAMS curriculum resources excited and empowered my students, they have fueled my own interest in women’s history, advocacy, and activism and renewed my passion for teaching history.
Brief Program Description
In this workshop, humanities educators will learn how to integrate primary sources, life stories, essays, and learning activities that center women’s voices, contributions, and experiences into their classrooms. Educators will pair provided resources to be meaningfully incorporated into existing humanities curricula, aiming to support students in recognizing their own agency, valuing diversity, and appreciating difference.
Summary
In this workshop, humanities educators will explore the Women and the American Story (WAMS) curriculum and learn how to meaningfully integrate the voices, contributions, and experiences of women that it highlights into their practice by pairing resources for classroom use.
(via https://wams.nyhistory.org/about/) WAMS is the flagship education initiative of the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History. This free curriculum project provides teachers and students, as well as the curious individual, with information about the myriad and often critical roles women played in shaping United States history. WAMS has been designed for maximum flexibility to support humanities curricula in diverse schools, with the aim of supporting all students in recognizing their agency, valuing diversity, and appreciating difference.
After exploring the WAMS curriculum through a US History, World History, and/or English Language Arts lens, educators will individually explore and pair resources for use in an existing lesson, learning segment, or unit that they teach. Individually, Educators will consider how the pieces they chose "speak" to one another, what they signify about women’s experiences - past and present, and how they might engage or interest students. In small groups, educators will share their resources and considerations. Together, we will reflect on our new understandings of women’s representation in the humanities and their significance to our practice and our students.
Evidence
Please find a research paper I completed last semester to support this work at the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1svr6DrJ0EukFGIK7c32XVWsQY8YRqjtyhkfbq8Z-8fg/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Objective 1
Participants will be able to navigate WAMS curriculum resources.
Learning Objective 2
Participants will be able to meaningfully pair WAMS curriculum resources for classroom integration.
Learning Objective 3
Participants will be able to use WAMS curriculum resources in their practice.
Keyword Descriptors
Women’s rights, representation, humanities, history, english, SEL, culturally-responsive pedagogy, women’s history, curriculum
Presentation Year
2022
Start Date
3-7-2022 1:00 PM
End Date
3-7-2022 2:15 PM
Recommended Citation
Dineen, Katie, "Closing the Gender Gap in Humanities Education" (2022). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 13.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2022/2022/13
Closing the Gender Gap in Humanities Education
Session Two Breakouts
In this workshop, humanities educators will learn how to integrate primary sources, life stories, essays, and learning activities that center women’s voices, contributions, and experiences into their classrooms. Educators will pair provided resources to be meaningfully incorporated into existing humanities curricula, aiming to support students in recognizing their own agency, valuing diversity, and appreciating difference.
