Provost’s Colloquium Series Presents a Talk on Affective Entanglements of Gender and Curriculum in the Education of Girls in Liberia

Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on October 30, 2018, No Comments

The East Stroudsburg University’s Provost’s Colloquium Series continues with a presentation by Stephanie McCall, Ed.D., assistant professor of professional & secondary education. The presentation “Affective Entanglements of Gender and Curriculum in the Education of Girls in Liberia” will take place in Beers Lecture Hall on Wednesday November 14, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

Dr. McCall will share details and photos of her recent trip to Liberia to explore an all-girls school. McCall will share what she learned about the curriculum of gender, girlhood, and female success in one all-girls’ school.

What does “empowerment” mean for so many different girls and the possibilities and impossibilities of their futures? What role does school knowledge and curriculum play in these understandings? These questions explicitly connect to McCall’s scholarship about gender, girls’ success and curriculum theorizing in all-girls schools, broadly.

McCall will articulate some purposes and possibilities for a research partnership with this all-girls school as well as describe her complex tremors of hope and her trepidations about western educational research in a post-conflict context in Africa.

For more information about the Provost’s Colloquium Series, contact Christina McDonald, director, office of sponsored projects and research, at (570) 422-7954 or cmcdonald9@esu.edu.