Our Mission
The EDUCATING WOMEN project responds to a perceived generation gap in scholarship on women, gender, and education and also to a widespread limit-situation for this field, one that weakens the thoughtfulness of girls' and women's education at all levels in diverse settings: in general, the field's senior scholars often lack opportunities for collaborative work, while interested junior scholars often lack opportunities for adequately diversified advanced studies of women, gender, and education. Funded by various sources, this project will combine distance-education technologies, annual special-interest-group meetings within the American Educational Studies Association & National Women's Studies Association, publications online and in print, face-to-face intergenerational collaborations, and international conferences. Its purposes are to broaden, deepen, and more extensively share specialized knowledge, thought, and ongoing scholarship on women, gender, and education and thus to construct unprecedented opportunities for novice, mid-career, and senior scholars to undertake advanced learning and inquiry in this new field of scholarship that serves the professional development of thoughtful educational leadership, policy, and practice affecting girls and women.
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