美国女子学院的女性教育课程设置及其启示

Women's Curriculum Provisions in American Women's Colleges and Its Enlightenment

女性教育课程是以一定的妇女观和教育理论为指导,根据女生身心特点和特殊学习需求开设的一系列课程。分析美国5所女子学院妇女学或性别研究专业课程设置发现,除开设美国妇女史、妇女学或性别导论、妇女/性别研究方法等专业基础课程外,这些学校开出了丰富的跨院系的妇女或性别研究选修课程,而且分种族、分地区研究妇女的课程占有一定比重。相比而言,我国女子高校女性教育课程资源不足,跨院系开设的女性教育课程十分稀缺。加强跨学科培养是提高我国女子高校教学质量的必由之路。

Women’s curricula are a series of courses provided by schools guided by women’s concepts and educational theory, based on girls’developing mental and bodily features, and meeting their special learning needs. Analysis of curriculums of women’s studies or gender studies in five American women’s colleges found the colleges have established specialized foundation courses such as American Women’s History, Theory of Women’s and Gender Study, Methods of Women, and Gender Study, etc., and they also provide many inter-disciplinary courses on women’s studies or gender studies to students. Courses of women’s studies occupy a certain proportion of studies by country or by race. Compared with American women’s colleges, China’s women’s colleges and universities experience shortages of curriculum resources, and inter-disciplinary courses in women’s education are scarce. To strengthen inter-disciplinary training is the only way to improve the educational quality of China’s women’s colleges and universities.