Examining Gender as a Foundation within Foundational Studies

Abstract

Leck asserts that gender relations, particularly the relations of domination and subjugation characteristic of patriarchy, condition our ways of knowing, of teaching, of learning, and even of understanding gender itself. She argues that traditional ways of teaching, learning, and structuring knowledge are inadequate to the task of understanding and challenging oppressive patriarchal relations, and that social foundations instruction should be approached as an opportunity for a “community of learners” to examine relations between society, education, and the formation of selves.