Tuesday, April 3

Miss_G Project alive and well thanks to $70,000 grant

The Miss G_Project, a Western student-founded campaign to add a women and gender studies course to the Canadian secondary school curriculum, was recently rejuvenated after the provincial government gave it a $70,000 funding grant and established a council to review the addition of the course.

While its most tangible goal has been adding a women’s studies course to the high school curriculum, The Miss G_ Project is also trying to promote equity in education, combat sexism and homophobia through education, and encourage active citizenship.

“The first major change that we have recently encountered is that we met with the Minister of Education and she set up a council to review the addition of two courses: environmental studies and women and gender studies,” said Lara Shkordoff, co-founder of the Miss G_ Project.

Although still in the early stages of establishing the high-school courses, Shkordoff said Miss G members are excited and hopeful the review council will spark momentum.

LINK: The Gazette
LINK: The Miss G Project

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great news!

Gender studies at a high school level are such a good idea. Everyone at any point in their life can benefit from the critical thinking it encourages, and I know that high school students would be interested in receiving instruction, as well as discussing this topic.

Hope to hear more about this!

p.s. sorry if this is a repeat, my network reset and I think I lost an earlier comment