3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER AND EDUCATION - Feminist weaves education

In a global context marked by the rise of reactionary discourses, anti-gender offensives, the proliferation of multiple forms of structural violence, and ongoing attempts to depoliticize education, Feminist Weaves in Education brings together researchers, educators, students, activists, and socio-educational practitioners to collectively reflect on education as a key terrain of feminist struggle, resistance, and transformation. This conference is held as the 3rd International Conference of the Education and Gender Research Group (GEG), which continues to offer and foster a space for research, debate, and action committed to gender justice in education.

The metaphor of weaving structures the conference’s approach, evoking both the material practice of interlacing threads and the work of weaving/tramar relations, plots and stories across differences. It reflects a commitment to bringing diverse knowledges, practices and experiences into relation in order to challenge the androcentric, adult-centric, colonial and neoliberal epistemologies that have historically shaped educational systems. In this sense, weaving also names the feminist labour of devising and re-plotting (idear y volver a tramar) educational worlds otherwise.

From this perspective, Feminist Weaves in Education places at the centre the relationships between knowledge, power, and collective action, recognizing the epistemic agencies of children, young people, and education professionals, as well as embodied feminist pedagogies, together with bodies, affects, everyday experiences, public policies, and community practices as key sites for the production of knowledge, resistance, and educational transformation.

Feminist Weaves in Education is grounded in feminist, queer, intersectional, anti-racist, and decolonial traditions that understand knowledge as situated, plural, and contested. The conference is conceived as a space for encounter and dialogue to share research, experiences, and practices that, in formal and informal educational settings, contribute to building emancipatory knowledge ecologies, strengthening alliances, and imagining livable, inclusive, and radically democratic educational futures.