The Graduate Institute of Gender Education(GIGE) at the National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU)is the first of its kind established in Taiwan and Asia for promoting gender studies in Education.
GIGE was established in 2000 and has served as an institutional base for academic research, innovative teaching, and intellectual exchange on gender issues.
The Master's program offered through the Graduate
Institute is designed to introduce students to a variety of feminist
perspectives on gender issues and to encourage future interest in gender
studies.
In 2011, we established a Ph.D. program to further promote gender
education and gender mainstreaming in higher education. Our aim is to
cultivate stronger research power of interdisciplinary perspectives in
gender studies.
The faculty members of the Graduate Institute of
Gender Education specialize in various research
fields and are committed to the intellectual
advancement of and practical engagement with
issues pertaining to gender equality in society and
in education.
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Faculty |
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Dr. Mei-Hui You Professor |
Specialists: gender education, sociology of gender, cultural education, feminist teaching |
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E-mail: meiyou@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw |
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Website：http://researcher.nsc.gov.tw/meinsc |
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Dr. Li-Ling Tsai Associate Professor |
Specialists: gender and science, gender and science education, discourse and identity, anthropology and education |
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E-mail: liling@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw |
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Website：http://gender.nknu.edu.tw/liling |
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Dr. Vincent Shieh Associate Professor |
Specialists: gender studies, curriculum and instruction, studies, qualitative studies, psychology of gender |
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E-mail: vshieh@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw |
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Website：http://gender.nknu.edu.tw/vshieh/index.html |
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Dr. Chia-Ling Yang Assistant Professor |
Gender and welfare policy, intersection of gender and ethnicity, post-colonial feminism,feminist ethnography, gender and education |
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E-mail: clyang@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw |
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Website：http://gender.nknu.edu.tw/chialing.pdf |
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Adjunct Faculty |
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Dr. Der-Long Fang Professor of Department of Education |
Specialists: curriculum theory and practice, action research method, gender education curriculum design |
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Dr. Huei-Mei Wei Associate Professor of Department of Education |
Specialists: gender education, educational psychology, marriage and the family, sex education |
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Dr. Chiao-Ling Yang Professor of Department of Education |
Specialists: educational sociology, gender and education, qualitative research methodology |
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Dr. Ching-Jung Ho Professor of Graduate Institute of Adult Education |
Specialists: Adult Learning and Teaching, Adult Literacy Education, Self-directed Learning. |
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Dr. Ping Yu Professor of Graduate Institute of Adult Education |
Specialists: Leisure Education, Leisure Counseling, Women Education, Adult Education Programming and Marketing |
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Dr. Wen-Chun Cho Professor of Graduate Institute of Guidance and Conseling |
Specialists: marriage and family counseling, group therapy, gestalt therapy |
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Dr. Hsin-Ya Huang Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature,National Sun Yat-sen University |
Specialists: women’s literature, post-colonial discourse, contemporary American minority’s literature |
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Dr. Hsing-Chen Yang Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Gender Studies at Kaohsiung Medical University |
Specialists: gender and education, feminist education, women’s education and learning, curriculum and instruction. |
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Dr. Ping Shaw Professor of Institute of Communication Management, National Sun Yat-sen University |
Specialists: gender and the media, communication and political economy, gender and communication, advertising and culture |
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Dr.Li-Ching Wang Associate Professor of Department of Education,National Pingtung University of Education |
Specialists: gender equality in education, mathematics teaching and research, teacher education |
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Dr.Joh-Jong Huang Assistant Professor |
Specialists: domestic violence counseling, counseling gender studies, clinical epidemiology |
Our courses emphasize the combination of gender studies and society issues, focusing on both quality and quantity of research training. The courses in Master and Ph.D. program are divided into gender issues; teaching and counseling; social culture and action; design and stratege. Credits required for graduation is 32 credits.
Master Program Ph.D. Program
Students are required to take 32 credits, including
12 credits in required courses and 20 credits of
coursework in related fields. Courses and degree
theses must be completed within 4 years.
The Graduate Institute of
Gender Education requires
that all students pass oral
research proposals to orient
their theses research.
These
proposals are usually held
in the second year of study.
Students also have to
defend their theses in a final
oral examination.
Graduate Institute of Gender Education
National Kaohsiung Normal University
116, Ho-Ping 1st Rd., Kaohsiung 802, Taiwan, R.O.C.
TEL:(+886)-7-7172930 ext 2011
FEX:(+886)-7-7710366
E-mail:gender@nknu.edu.tw
URL :http://gender.nknu.edu.tw
