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GENDER
SYMPOSIUM 2005 - “Promoting and Deconstructing Gender
Equality in
Education in 2005: Issues and Challenges”
The Gender Committee invites all CIES 2005 conference
participants to attend
the three-part Gender Symposium on Wednesday, March 23,
2005, 10:30 a.m. –
3:00 p.m. Please register in advance on the conference
web site.
The goals of Education for All and the Millennium Development
Goals set 2005
as the first target date for achieving gender parity in
education. Building
on the unique convergence of higher education, non-governmental
organizations, and development agency expertise at CIES,
the 2005 Gender
Symposium will explore and critique the ways in which
international
agencies, governments, and civil society organizations
promote gender parity
and gender equality in education discourse, policy, and
practice.
In Part One (10:30 – 12:00) Dr. Cream Wright, Education
Section Chief,
UNICEF, will discuss “Promoting Gender Equality through
the UN Girls’
Education Initiative: Successes and Challenges”; and Dr.
Christina Rawley,
USAID/WID EQUATE Project Director, will examine “Promoting
Gender Equality
through USAID Programming.” Dr. Mary Ann Maslak, St. John’s
University will
present “Deconstructing Gender Rhetoric in EFA and MDG
Documents”; and Dr.
Beth Goldstein, University of Kentucky, will explore “Deconstructing
Gender
Equality in Development Discourse.”
In Part Two (12:00 – 1:30) Dr. Nelly Stromquist,
Professor, University of
Southern California, will chart new territory for girls’
education in the
distinguished Eggertsen Lecture. Part Three of the Gender
Symposium (1:30 –
3:00) will be a roundtable discussion among Dr. Stromquist,
the Eggertsen
Lecture discussants, and morning session panelists. Dr.
Heidi Ross, Indiana
University, will chair the session; Dr. Suzanne Grant
Lewis, Harvard
University, will serve as rapporteur. An informal social
gathering for all
Gender Symposium participants will follow the roundtable
discussion.
The $20 fee for the Gender Symposium will include the
Eggertsen Lecture
brown bag lunch and refreshments during symposium sessions.
For additional
information contact Gender Committee Chairperson Shirley
Miske
(smiske@pobox.com).
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