Moderator: Júlia Garraio (CES)

Overview
At the beginning of this school year, a controversy arose as to whether or not the discipline of Citizenship and Development should be compulsory at school. This controversy was apparently triggered by parents of children who, instructed by their parents, did not attend the subject and did not adhere to the school's proposals with a view to preparing alternative work which would prevent failing the year foreseen in cases of excessive absences. Parents invoked the "conscientious objection" to programmatic contents specifically related to gender issues, addressed in the textbooks for teachers created by the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality.

The refusal to attend the subject triggered a petition movement in favour of optional attendance, as well as two petitions against the same idea, one of them coming from critical Catholics. The online seminar, here proposed, will address the political significance of the use of gender issues by conservative groups and its implications for the public school. It will be attended by experts involved in the writing of the Citizenship coursebooks.

Bio notes 

Teresa Alvarez Teresa holds a degree in History from the University of Lisbon and a Master's degree in Multimedia Educational Communication from the Universidade Aberta, with her thesis on Gender Studies in History teaching. She has been working at the Commission for Citizenship and Equality and Gender (CIG) since 2000, having been a teacher of primary and secondary education between 1981 and 2000. She is a member of the Experts Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality. She was part of the Working Group on Citizenship Education Strategy, set up jointly by the ESS and SECI in 2016, and was a member of the Technical Group of the Citizenship Education Forum in 2006-2008, promoted by the Minister for Education and the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. At the CIG, she works in the areas of formal education, higher education and institutional communication, being responsible for monitoring, since 2004, the implementation of the National Plans for Equality in the areas of Education, in articulation, especially since 2009, with Universities and Polytechnic Institutes, the Directorate General of Education, Municipalities and Teacher Training Centres for the implementation of continuous training of education professionals on gender equality in pedagogical practices and school organisational dynamics. At CIG, she is the coordinator of the Project "Guiões de Educação Género e Cidadania" (Gender and Citizenship Education Guides), in progress since 2008, and is a member of the coordination team of the National Project "Engenheiras por um dia" (Engineers for a day) in progress since June 2017.

She is a researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Relations of the Open University, the Research Group on Studies on Women, Gender, Societies and Cultures, and a member of the Scientific Council of the journal ex æquo, of the Portuguese Association for Studies on Women.

Cristina Maria Coimbra Vieira é licenciada em Psicologia (1991) pela Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra (FPCEUC) e doutorada em Ciências da Educação, na especialidade de Psicologia da Educação (2003), pela mesma instituição, onde exerce funções docentes desde 1992, sendo atualmente Professora Associada. Leciona há cerca de três décadas unidades curriculares de metodologia da investigação científica em educação a cursos de licenciatura, mestrado e doutoramento. Os seus interesses de investigação têm-se centrado em torno das questões de género e educação ao longo do ciclo de vida, com principal incidência em contextos como a família e a escola. É membro integrado (e membro da Direção) do Centro de Investigação em Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária (CEAD) da Universidade do Algarve. É investigadora colaboradora do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS 20) e Vice-Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres (APEM), representando esta última no Conselho Consultivo da Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género (CIG). Fez parte das equipas de avaliação externa dos II (2003-2006) e III (2007-2010) Planos Nacionais para a igualdade entre mulheres e homens. Fez parte das equipas autoras dos cinco Guiões de Educação Género e Cidadania, destinados à educação pré-escolar e ao ensino obrigatório, que foram publicados pela CIG entre 2010 e 2017. Em 2016 integrou o Grupo de Trabalho que delineou a Estratégia Nacional de Educação para a Cidadania (ENEC). É membro da Direção da Sociedade Europeia para a Investigação em Educação de Adultos (ESREA), no mandato 2020-2022, e co-diretora da Rede Género e Educação de Adultos, da mesma Associação. É ainda membro da Direção da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação (SPCE), no mandato 2017-2020. Tem ampla experiência de orientação de alunos/as de mestrado e de doutoramento nas áreas em que ensina e investiga e tem diversos trabalhos publicados. Tem participado com regularidade com a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) em painéis de avaliação de projetos e de candidaturas a bolsas de investigação, na área de Ciências da Educação.

Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, PhD in Theology (feminist theology) at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen (Frankfurt/Germany), Master in Theology (Catholic University, Lisbon) and 1st grade in Theology at the same University. Postdoctorate in CES. Professor at the Fernando Pessoa University. Teaches in the field of Ethics. Chair of the Ethics Comission of the same University (2012-2017, and from 2019 -).Researcher at CES. Co-coordinator of GT-POLICREDOS together with Júlia Garraio and Luciane Lucas Santos. Chair of the Portuguese Association of Feminist Theologies and former Vice-Chair of the Portuguese Association on Women's Studies (2009-2014). Member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal "Religion & Gender" and of the Editorial Board of the ESWTR Studies in Religion. Fields of specialization: religion; feminist studies. Other fields of interest: Citizenship. Publishes in the field of religion and feminist studies.

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