Education and Training

WORKSHOP DEVELOPING EQUALITY ATTITUDES IN ACADEMIC TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

This workshop aims to increase the knowledge of UW academic staff on stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, their sources and the psychological, social and legal consequences of their use. By employing active and varied learning methods, workshop participants will acquire new skills in recognising and counteracting discrimination at work in the academic environment and in communicating with students. They will learn about ways of responding to discrimination and how to use equality language as well. Workshop participants will also have the opportunity to prepare individual plans for pro-equality action to assist in their teaching work.

This workshop is implemented within the framework of the Integrated Development Programme (ZIP) at the University of Warsaw 2018-2022, and co-financed from resources of the European Social Fund under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development.

Framework workshop programme

1. Integration of participants and presentation of the main principles of the UW Programme “We Are All Equal”.
2. Stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination – sources
3. Stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination – effects
4. Different forms of discrimination and developing the ability to recognise them
5. Reacting to discrimination
6. Communication tools for reacting to discrimination
7. Equality-minded attitudes in teaching – an individual action plan

MORE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT THE HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE, TRAINING DEPARTMENT

The aim of the course is to familiarise the academic community with issues related to equal treatment. Participation in the e-course will enable students and learners to gain knowledge, among others about what discrimination is and what its consequences are, look at personal attitudes towards gender equality, and finally – develop basic skills to respond to discrimination.

The Understanding Equality Course is available to students as a general university subject (so-called OGUN) and for employees as a certified training course.

The course has been developed by equal treatment experts; it provides practical information on what unequal treatment is, how it is manifested and what to do if you witness or experience discrimination.

The course is interactive and delivered as a tutorial. After having completed this course, it is possible to download a certificate confirming knowledge of equal treatment.

In the course, you will learn what discrimination is, how it is manifested and what to do if you witness or experience discrimination.

The Understanding Equality Course consists of 4 parts:

1. Context of gender equality policy, in which you will learn about the broader social context of gender equality, historical and social changes in women’s higher education, the basic terminology of gender equality policy and the definition of gender.
2. Barriers to equality, in which you will learn how to identify both individual and social barriers to gender equality, know the power and force of personal beliefs and how they affect other people and understand the correlations between stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.
3. Discrimination, in which you will gain knowledge of different forms of discrimination, learn to recognise discriminatory behaviour and learn about the effects of discrimination.
4. Reaction to discrimination, which deals with different types of interventions and ways for reacting to discrimination available at the University of Warsaw.

This course is available in both Polish and English for UW employees on the e-learning platform Kampus-Pracownik under the category Training available to all employees: KURS NA RÓWNOŚĆ (Polish version) or UNDERSTANDING EQUALITY COURSE (English version).

This course is available to students each semester as a general university subject (so-called OGUN).

Currently, Understanding Equality Course is offered in three forms: as a general university subject (OGUN), as a subject in specific faculties, and as a subject for doctoral students.

The Understanding Equality Course was prepared by Małgorzata Dymowska, Natalia Sarata and Marta Witkowska, in substantive cooperation with Anna Grędzińska

Contact details: kubisaj@is.uw.edu.pl dr hab. Julia Kubisa prof. UW

UNDERSTANDING EQUALITY COURSE – RECOMMENDED READING

Moreover, we recommend some books supplementing the knowledge gained in the Undertanding Equality Course. They can be found in the Wolny Dostęp zone in University of Warsaw Library

We update the recommended reading list regularly and encourage you to send in your suggestions.

PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION

„Etykieta czy drogowskaz?: rola stereotypów w przestrzeniach edukacyjnej różnorodności” pod red. Moniki Grochalskiej i Majki Łojko.

“Edukacja antydyskryminacyjna : Ostatni dzwonek! : o deficytach systemu edukacji formalnej w obszarze przeciwdziałania dyskryminacji i przemocy motywowanej uprzedzeniami : raport z badań” pod red. Magdaleny Chusteckiej, Elżbiety Kielak, Marty Rawłuszko.

GENDER STUDIES

„Facet przyzwoity : od patriarchatu do nowych rodzajów męskości” Ivan Jablonka ; tłumaczenie Marta Duda-Gryc.

„Socjologia płci : płeć w ujęciu globalnym”  Raewyn Connell ; tł. Olga Siara.

„Uwikłani w płeć : feminizm i polityka tożsamości”  Judith Butler ; przełożyła Karolina Krasuska ; wstęp Olga Tokarczuk.

„Komu potrzebna jest płeć? = Gender: do we need it or not?” zespół red. Krystyna Ablewicz et al..

„Mężczyzna polski : psychospołeczne czynniki warunkujące pełnienie ról zawodowych i rodzinnych” Anna Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Nowakowska.

„Miłość, płeć i matriarchat”  Erich Fromm ; przekł.: Beata Radomska, Grzegorz Sowinski.

„Natura, kultura, płeć : historia, etnografia, socjologia, psychoanaliza, filozofia” tł.  Katarzyna Łopuska  red. książki Karol Wojciech Meissner

„Płeć, wybory, władza” pod. red. Renaty Siemieńskiej.

„Płeć zmiany : zjawisko transformacji w Polsce z perspektywy gender” Izabela Desperak.

„Postpłciowość? : praktyki i narracje tożsamościowe w ponowoczesnym świecie” red. Aleksandra E. Banot, Anna Barabasz, Rafał Majka.

„Sex i gender : płeć biologiczna i kulturowa w refleksjach i badaniach młodych socjologów” pod red. Ewy Malinowskiej.

„Socjologia pary : praktyki intymne w związkach nieheteroseksualnych” Agata Stasińska.

„Socjologia płci i seksualności w perspektywie teorii queer i krytyki feministycznej” red. nauk. Joanna Mizielińska i Agata Stasińska.

„Społeczne tworzenie ciała : płeć kulturowa i płeć biologiczna” Adam Buczkowski.

 “Conceptions of postwar German masculinity” ed. by Roy Jerome, with an afterword by Michael Kimmel.

“Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics” bell hooks.

“Teoria feministyczna : od marginesu do centrum” bell hooks ; przeł. Ewa Majewska ; przekł. przejrzała Ewa Klekot.

„Feministki we współpracy z państwem: studium przypadku” Marta Rawłuszko.

„The gendered society” Michael S. Kimmel.

“Społeczeństwo Genderowe” Michael Kimmel ; redakcja naukowa Anna M. Kłonkowska; tłumaczenie Anna Czerniak i Anna M. Kłonkowska.

„Niewidzialne kobiety : jak dane tworzą świat skrojony pod mężczyzn” Caroline Criado Perez ; przekład Anna Sak.

„Kobiety, mężczyźni, płeć” red. prowadzący numer Małgorzata Fuszara, Beata Łaciak

„Kobiety, migracja i praca” red. prowadzący numer: Małgorzata Fuszara

„Kobiety w polityce” Małgorzata Fuszara

„Kobiety w Polsce na przełomie wieków : nowy kontrakt płci?” pod red. Małgorzaty Fuszary 

„Kobiety, wybory, polityka” pod red. Małgorzaty Fuszary.

„Kwoty, listy wyborcze i równość płci w wyborach parlamentarnych w 2011 roku” Małgorzata Fuszara.

„Masculinities and the law : a multidimensional approach” ed. by Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley ; foreword by Michael Kimmel.

“Men explain things to me” Rebecca Solnit 

„Mężczyźni objaśniają mi świat” Rebecca Solnit ; przełożyła Anna Dzierzgowska 

„Matka wszystkich pytań” Rebecca Solnit ; przełożyła Barbara Kopeć-Umiastowska 

„Nadzieja w mroku : nieznane opowieści, niebywałe możliwości” Rebecca Solnit ; przełożyli Anna Dzierzgowska, Sławomir Królak.

„Nowi mężczyźni? : zmieniające się modele męskości we współczesnej Polsce” pod red. Małgorzaty Fuszary.

„Pokochać czerń : dziedzictwo myśli Williama E. B. Du Boisa w książkach dla dzieci Nikki Giovanni, Faith Ringgold i bell hooks” Ewa Klęczaj-Siara.

„Proces kształtowania kobiecej podmiotowości : praca biograficzna : pedagogiczne studium samorozwoju bell hooks”  Aneta Ostaszewska.

„Równouprawnienie : księga jubileuszowa dla Profesory Małgorzaty Fuszary” Redakcja naukowa Anna Krajewska, Marta Rawłuszko.

„Teoria z globalnego Południa : w stronę ogólnoświatowej nauki o społeczeństwie” Raewyn Connell ; przełożył Paweł Tomanek.

„The will to change : men, masculinity, and love” bell hooks

„Gotowi na zmianę : o mężczyznach, męskości i miłości”  bell hooks

“Zasada równości szans kobiet i mężczyzn : w projektach Programu Operacyjnego Kapitał Ludzki : poradnik” Maja Branka, Marta Rawłuszko, Agnieszka Siekiera.

„Gender w społeczeństwie polskim” pod red. Krystyny Slany, Justyny Struzik, Katarzyny Wojnickiej

„Karuzela z mężczyznami : problematyka męskości w polskich badaniach społecznych” pod red. Katarzyny Wojnickiej i Eweliny Ciaputy.

„Pożegnanie z Matką Polką? : dyskursy, praktyki i reprezentacje macierzyństwa we współczesnej Polsce” red. nauk. Renata E. Hryciuk i Elżbieta Korolczuk.

„Kto się boi gender? : prawica, populizm i feministyczne strategie oporu” Agnieszka Graff, Elżbieta Korolczuk ; przełożył Michał Sutkowski.

„Praktyki rodzinne i rodzicielskie we współczesnej Polsce : rekonstrukcja codzienności” Małgorzata Sikorska.

„Poza granicami : płeć społeczno-kulturowa w katolickich organizacjach migracyjnych” Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Sylwia Urbańska, Katarzyna Zielińska.

„Matka Polka na odległość : z doświadczeń migracyjnych robotnic 1989-2010” Sylwia Urbańska

„Kobiety (w) nauce : problem płci we współczesnej filozofii nauki i w praktyce badawczej” Aleksandra Derra.

„Kariery akademickie kobiet i mężczyzn : różne czy podobne?” redakcja naukowa Renata Siemieńska.

„Płeć” Harriet Bradley ; przeł. Ewa Chomicka

„Czarownice : niezwyciężona siła kobiet” Mona Chollet ; przełożył Sławomir Królak.

„Dlaczego nie rozmawiam już z białymi o kolorze skóry”  Reni Eddo-Lodge ; przełożyła Anna Sak ; posłowie Monika Bobako.

„Kobiety i duch inności” Maria Janion.

„Cyfrodziewczyny : pionierki polskiej informatyki” Karolina Wasielewska

LGBT

“Art & queer culture”  Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer

„Biblia queeru” redakcja Jack Guinness ; tłumaczenie Zofia Szachnowska-Olesiejuk.

„Completely queer : the gay and lesbian encyclopedia” Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson.

“Dezorientacje : antologia polskiej literatury queer” Alessandro Amenta, Tomasz Kaliściak, Błażej Warkocki.

„In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives” Judith Halberstam.

“Odmiany odmieńca : mniejszościowe orientacje seksualne w perspektywie gender” = A queer mixture : gender perspectives on minority sexual identities red. Tomasz Basiuk, Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Sikora.

„Płeć, ciało, seksualność : od feminizmu do teorii queer” Joanna Mizielińska.

„Queer in America : sex, the media, and the closets of power” Michelangelo Signorile 

„Queer studies : podręcznik kursu” pod red. Jacka Kochanowskiego, Marty Abramowicz, Roberta Biedronia.

„Queer theory : an introduction”  Annamarie Jagose.

“Queer theory and social change” Max H. Kirsch.

“Queer wars : the new global polarization over gay rights” Dennis Altman and Jonathan Symons.

„Solidarność queerowa : mobilizacja, ramy i działania ruchów queerowych w Polsce” Justyna Struzik.

“Speaking in queer tongues : globalization and gay language” ed. by William L. Leap and Tom Boellstorff.

„Spektakl i wiedza : perspektywa społecznej teorii queer” Jacek Kochanowski.

„Strategie queer : od teorii do praktyki” red. Monika Kłosowska, Mariusz Drozdowski, Agata Stasińska.

„Cała siła, jaką czerpię na życie : świadectwa, relacje, pamiętniki osób LGBTQ+” pod redakcją Julii Bednarek, Piotra Laskowskiego, Sebastiana Matuszewskiego, Łukasza Mikołajewskiego, Michała Sobczaka.

„Oni : homoseksualiści w czasie II wojny światowej”  Joanna Ostrowska.

The aim of the course is to familiarise the academic community with issues related to sexual harassment. Participants of this course will learn, i.a., what sexual harassment and consent are and what consequences sexual harassment may be for those who experience it. They will also have a closer look at their attitudes towards behaviour showing signs of sexual harassment and learn how to react. The course content is related to the publication entitled:“Guide to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the University of Warsaw”

In this course, you will find out what sexual harassment is, what forms it takes, and who experiences it most frequently. You will also learn about issues related to fully informed consent. The course will conclude with a section on self-evaluation. In this section, students will reflect on their daily behaviour, while checking whether the environment in which they live is safe as a working and learning environment.

The Understanding Equality Course consists of 4 parts:

1. Definitions and fundamental issues related to sexual harassment.Legal contexts, European Union and Polish regulations, application of the law in practice. Examples of sexual harassment.
2. Concept of consent.In this part, you will learn where the term consent originated from, what influenced its evolution and how it affects the social, political and moral dimensions of sexual harassment. You will learn as well how stereotypes influence our perception of sexual harassment.
3. Rape culture. In this module, you will gain knowledge of what sexist hate speech, sexualised cyberbullying, sexualisation of women and girls and mansplaining are. Each of these phenomena is connected to sexual harassment and sexism.
4. Reacting to sexual harassment, which involves information on how to act against this phenomenon at the University of Warsaw. You will get to know what you can do when you either experience or witness sexual harassment. You will find out how to use the ways to react to and report sexual harassment at the UW and beyond.

The course The Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the University is delivered through the CKC Kampus platform.

It was prepared by Joanna Piotrowska of the Feminoteka Foundation, in substantive cooperation with dr hab. Julia Kubisa.

OPTIONAL TRAINING FOR ACADEMIC DEISCIPLINARY OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEES

Training title: How to deal with people who have experienced sexual violence?

Time: 3 hours

Trainer: Joanna Piotrowska, Feminoteka foundation

Sexual harassment is one of the most traumatic forms of violence. Furthermore, research shows that blaming women (who are the most vulnerable to this form of harassment and suffer from it most frequently) who have experienced sexual harassment is common. This type of violence is significantly under-reported, with victims failing to seek help and support, making it difficult to recover, with perpetrators going unpunished. One of the reasons for this unfair treatment is a lack of knowledge of the phenomenon, reproducing myths about them, and ignoring both existing procedures and possibilities of providing proper assistance. The training aims to discuss the phenomenon and provide knowledge on how to deal with people who have experienced sexual violence so as to avoid harming them.

Training scope:

• fundamental definitions of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence,
• key statistics
• sexual violence as a form of discrimination based on gender,
• causes of sexual violence,
• myths and facts about sexual violence,
• psychological, legal and health consequences of myths about sexual violence,
• available procedures and good practices on how to react to sexual violence,
• how to help people who have experienced sexual violence so as to avoid causing them further harm.

In the training materials, participants will be provided with relevant literature and a list of places that offer assistance.

Trainer:

Joanna Piotrowska – the president of Feminoteka foundation, andragologist, anti-violence expert and trainer. She has been providing training and workshops in this field for 20 years. She is the author and co-author of numerous publications on gender-based violence.

The course on mobbing at work is an interactive e-course that the participant will pass independently.

The course introduces the topic of mobbing at work. It prepares participants to enter the labour market, create a safe workplace, and increase the skills to seek help in abusive situations and react directly in difficult situations. It allows the participants to learn to defend themselves against mobbing and shows them how not to become a mobber.

The theoretical part of the course presents mobbing as a complex phenomenon with its social and organisational dimensions, the consequences of which can influence employees’ psychosomatic functioning, group dynamics and the effectiveness of organisational goals. The course helps to understand the essence of mobbing from a psychological and legal perspective. It describes the psychological mechanisms of the victim’s behaviour, the mobbing perpetrator, and the dynamics of the group process. It also introduces the applicable legal provisions and definitions and the practice of applying the law in this field.

In the practical part, criteria will be presented to recognise mobbing and distinguish it from interpersonal conflicts, discrimination or other undesirable phenomena in the working environment. The course participants will also gain knowledge of the sources and consequences of mobbing at work.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the issue of mobbing in the academic community. In this context, the anti-mobbing procedure in force at the University of Warsaw and the institutional support tools that can be used to counteract mobbing at the University of Warsaw will be presented.

It was prepared by the Academic Ombudsman, Anna Cybulko, PhD, in substantive cooperation with dr hab. Julia Kubisa.