Teaching Gender Equality and Diversity in Norway and Japan (UTFORSK; 2021-2025) is a four-year teaching and research collaboration between between the Center for Gender Research (CGR) at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway) and the Institute for Gender Studies (IGS) at Ochanomizu University (Tokyo, Japan) in the fields of gender equality and diversity.
UTFORSK’s primary purpose is to develop new pedagogical strategies to strengthen the quality of gender studies education at both the Center for Gender Research at NTNU and our partner institution the Institutes for Gender Studies and Global Leadership at Ochanomizu University (Japan). The project builds on a pre-existing strategic collaboration between the two institutions made possible by an ongoing INTPART project named NJ_BREGED (RCN, 2019-2022), and current research on transformative learning in Gender Studies (NTNU, 2019-).
Through international exchange and collaboration, joint curricular activities, the promotion of young researchers’ work and the development of disciplinary-specific teaching practices, the project will provide students and staff with a quality-enhanced and stimulating international learning environment at all levels. In doing so, UTFORSK seeks to establish a clear focus on the role of transformative teaching and learning in the education of students and young researchers.
The project is funded by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU).
