"
to begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the
mind, to understand and to live life as a process- live to become
"
Paulo Freire
The database
Expanding Horizons is an online database that maps European curricula, combining
gender and ethnicity, in a variety of academic disciplines. Mainly the humanities
and the social sciences are represented in the database. The primary function
of Expanding Horizons is that professors, who want to consolidate or renew their
education along intersectional lines, get information on what colleagues are doing
in their courses. In addition, the database brings together gender and ethnicity
expertise and may serve as a platform for them to exchange ideas and start innovating
activities. Students, finally, can use Expanding Horizons to find intersectional
courses at different universities. Of course,
the database is also of interest to researchers and educational policy makers.
What kind of information can be found in the database?
Background
In the past decade, there has been an increased momentum around thinking gender, ethnicity, "race",
class, sexuality, nation and other axes of social and symbolic differentiation
simultaneously. This momentum can be noted in European Women's Studies and other
critical academic disciplines, but also in (inter)national policy circles. While
the original impetus for intersectional theory came from the U.S., the challenge
to think intersectionally was taken up in a variety of European settings. This
is the first site where European academic curricula are brought together,
which use a combined approach to gender and ethnicity.
Participate
Is your course information not yet included in the Expanding Horizons database?
You can participate by filling in a questionnaire on each of your courses. Per
course this will take approximately 15 minutes. The questionnaire can be found
here.
Initiators
Expanding Hoizons was undertaken as a joint project by GEM;
the Expertise Centre for Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturality in education
located at Utrecht University, and by the IIAV,
the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement, both
in the Netherlands.
Contact
IIAV/ Expanding Horizons
Obiplein 4
1094 RB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-6650820
Fax: +31-20-6655812
Email: [email protected]
Voor vragen of meer informatie kunt u een e-mail sturen naar: [email protected]
of bellen naar: 020 - 6650820.
Op www.vrouweninfo.nl kunt u snel en makkelijk actuele informatie vinden.