Innovation in teaching to address gender-based violence in universities

Abstract

This paper presents the approach to and the process of carrying out a project on educational innovation in which universities set in different geographical and cultural contexts are participating. The teachers involved in the project recognise the existence of what is in all cases a patriarchal institutional framework, and amass the experience of working in such diverse fields as history, literature, sociology and physics, with the application of feminist teaching practices and contents. This project creates educational spaces that allow students to identify this experience and to detect its utility in broaching the various expressions of sexist violence in and out of the university.

The aim of the project is to further develop the contents studied in different fields of knowledge at universities, to analyse what happens in the spaces in which the learning relationship unfolds, and to study in greater depth the various forms of participation of students in order to be able to analyse jointly the manifestations of sexist violence in all of these aspects and to systematise in this way the practices and contents that contribute to the necessary detection and empowerment.