Gender and Diversity

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Understand gender diversity and different identities across the gender spectrum. Learn to facilitate expression of self-identity in students. Help those in educational communities to celebrate and promote inclusion.

Overview

This ten-week short course will teach you an introduction to gender diversity. Understand the different gender identities across the spectrum, and the importance exploring self-identity.

Learn about the difficulties and dangers that pupils may face, and what legislation, policies, and practices there are to safeguard them.

This course is aimed at teachers, trainers, support staff, academic staff, administrators, and anyone who encounters students or pupils in their role, to help support their students' knowledge of gender diversity.

Course structure

This course takes place once per week for ten weeks via Microsoft Teams.

Topics on this course include:

Introduction to gender diversity, including transgender and other identities across the gender spectrum
Gender stereotyping, heteronormativity, and normalisation, with reference to inclusive educational practices
Legislation, Policy, and Practice, considering intersectionality
Representation of gender diverse lives and people in educational communities, facilitating genuine student voice
A historical journey of gender inclusion and representation. 
Community involvement in inclusion
Safeguarding against danger and exploitation of gender diverse pupils
Challenges facing gender diverse students with reference to current debates
Challenges facing educators with reference to current debates
The importance of exploring and expressing self-identity
Understand ways of facilitating expression and celebration of self-identity

Sessions are adapted to ensure content is relevant to people’s roles and settings. 

We’ve got thousands of relevant books and e-books, with many more titles available through the inter-library loan service. We also subscribe to a comprehensive range of print and electronic journals so you can access the most reliable and up-to- date academic and industry articles. There are nearly 9,000 journal titles, mostly in electronic format.
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Facilities

This short course is taught online via Microsoft Teams however we have facilities on campus that can help you with your studies.

Entry requirements

We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.

If you live in, work in, or deliver in an educational role or educational environment you should be eligible for this course. This includes teacher, trainers, support staff, academic staff, administrators, and anyone who encounters students or pupils in their role.

Fees and finance

For available funding opportunities please contact esf@sunderland.ac.uk.

This information was correct at the time of publication.

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Contact

For more information on studying this course, contact the ESF team on 0191 515 3361 or esf@sunderland.ac.uk.

Page last updated: 15 March 2023

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