Researching Gender Pedagogy

Abstract

This chapter introduces the research project on which Gender Pedagogy is based, namely a study of a Master’s module, ‘Gender, Education and Development; its students and pedagogy. Simultaneously, the process of ‘contextualisation’ by which the reader is expected to come to ‘know’ the study well enough to engage with subsequent analysis, is called into question. The messy nature of research and its written representation are brought to the fore, in the form of different presentations of the Master’s module and discussion exercise which set the scene for the discussion of gender pedagogy, as well as the students who participated in the study.