妇女学教学本土化的两点思考

从世界范围而言,各国妇女学的产生与发展有着相似的大背景和共同的目标,由于各国的国情不同,各国的妇女学必将走自己的路。在中国,妇女学从无到有,正在探索与形成之中。在大学开课,是妇女学发展的重要途径。本文探讨了在中国的高等院校进行妇女学教学应该回答的问题:妇女学如果作为大学的一门课程,或者是渗透于其它课程的教学内容,要达到什么目的和目标?应该讲什么?教学方法有什么不同?是否应该将其作为一门单独的学科来谈论和对待,就像是历史学或社会学?学术界的学者和教授,尤其是管理者应如何对其做出反应?它对中国的高等教育、学术研究、乃至政策将产生怎样的影响?本文将对这些问题的思考有机地融入怎样理解本土化,以及妇女学教学在中国的本土化应从何着眼这两条思考线索之中。

Two Thoughts about Indigenous Teaching of Women Studies

Observing from the whole world, women studies in different countries have the similar background and goal. However, due to the differences between countries, women studies in different countries will definitely develop in its own way. In China, women studies have emerged and are undergoing exploration and coming into being. Offering curriculum related to women studies to university students is an important approach to facilitate the development of women studies in China. This article puts forward the following questions to be discussed when considering to offer women studies curriculum in higher education institutions such as: What goal is to be achieved whatever form the women studies curriculum is going to take? What to be taught? Is there any difference in teaching methods between women studies and traditional courses? Should the curriculum of women studies be discussed and treated as one subject just as history or sociology? How would the scholars and professors, especially the administrators in universities respond to the teaching of women studies? What kind of influence will the curriculum and teaching of women studies exert on the higher education, academic research and even the policies in China? It manages to integrate the thinking about these questions into the thinking clues of two basic issues in teaching of women studies: How to understand being indigenous? How to deal with indigenous teaching of women studies in Chinese universities?