Hvorfor kønsopdelt pædagogik?

Om polariserende pædagogik som metode til at modvirke ulighed mellem kønnene belyst via Projekt Pigeklasse - Drengeklasse

Abstract

In setting up »Project Girls' Class - Boys' Class«, an ongoing developmental project about gender equity, the teachers, a woman Lotte Rasmussen and a man Erik Wittrup have mixed their two classes and segregated the girls and the boys for longer or shorter
periods or fora whcile term in certain subjects thus giving them space and tutoring on their own terms - so to speak. It started in 1987 /88, when the pupils were ten to eleven years old. Here for the first time they were segregated for two months. The involved girls have developed self-confidence and love to be in their girls' -only setting whereas it is the teachers (not all the involved boys themselves) that find that the boys' class can provide important learning experiences for boys in raising their awareness ofvalues
and attitudes - both among the boys themselves and in relating to the girls. I have observed and leamt about the amazing empowering effects this and other similar projects have had - especially on girls - but also on a number of boys involved. No other pedagogical strategywith the aim of countering gender inequity has in my eyes had such impact on the participants, teachers, pupils as well as others, whom the participants relate to.