Tirar del hilolos estudios de las mujeres, feministas y del género y la innovación del currículo educativo : un estudio de caso sobre la docencia de una universidad española

Abstract

Women´s, feminist and gender studies have made important innovations in all areas of scientific knowledge. However, this rigorous and prolific scientific output has had little impact on the educational curriculum. This research seeks to recognise the contributions of academic feminism to university teaching and to identify resources for and obstacles to its implementation. Its final objective is to make proposals for curricular innovation in university teaching as a strategy whereby to introduce non-androcentric knowledge into pre-university levels. To this end, a case study of teaching at the University of Cantabria has been carried out, using triangulation of methods and data sourcing: the content analysis of degree and Masters programmes in different branches of knowledge that train future teachers, the analysis of in-depth interviews with teaching staff with connections to the work to support gender equality in any of the spheres of university activity and of a focus group with students who are sensitised to gender inequalities. The field study took place over the 2019-2021 period. The results show that feminist teaching is rare, has a transversal nature and that the rhetoric of equality in the competences prevails over it being addressed through content and bibliography. It is the teaching staff with specific knowledge who bring a mainstreaming approach to their teaching. Post-feminist and anti-feminist attitudes continue in part of the university community and the impact of universities´ neoliberal management in gender inequalities is an added obstacle to feminised academic work.