InterHEd, Intersectionality in Higher Education is an Erasmus+ project that aims to address the challenges related to inclusion and diversity in higher education institutions starting from an intersectional approach. Intersectionality is a theoretical and conceptual proposal that involves a nuanced approach to inequalities. It refers to the understanding of how multiple axes of inequality (such as gender, sexual orientation, functional diversity, ethnicity, etc.) interact generating unique experiences of discrimination and exclusion in a given context.

Objectives

Create and implement innovative methodologies that engage faculty and students from diverse social groups to explore the application of intersectionality.

Generating transferable interdisciplinary knowledge on intersectionality in higher education, including curricula, pedagogies and teaching methodologies, assessment and learning environments.

To raise awareness among relevant actors on the importance and potential of applying an intersectional approach to higher education teaching.

Innovative character

Innovative character

  • The project seeks to apply intersectionality in Higher Education beyond an additive logic: paying attention not only to the inequalities that add up but also to how they interact in the classroom.

  • InterHEd fills a theoretical and practical gap regarding the need for pedagogical resources among students and teaching staff to address specific experiences of inequality in Higher Education.

  • The initiative seeks to generate open-access pedagogical materials adaptable to specific educational contexts.

  • InterHEd seeks to address inequalities in Higher Education in a concrete way: within curricula, pedagogy and teaching methodology, assessment, tutorials or individual support spaces and learning environments in general (physical space, virtual campus, etc.).

  • InterHEd draws on and interrelates the experience of all members in the partnership on the intersectional approach to inequality in educational public policies.

  • The project seeks to apply intersectionality in Higher Education beyond an additive logic: paying attention not only to the inequalities that add up but also to how they interact in the classroom.

  • InterHEd fills a theoretical and practical gap regarding the need for pedagogical resources among students and teaching staff to address specific experiences of inequality in Higher Education.

  • The initiative seeks to generate open-access pedagogical materials adaptable to specific educational contexts.

  • InterHEd seeks to address inequalities in Higher Education in a concrete way: within curricula, pedagogy and teaching methodology, assessment, tutorials or individual support spaces and learning environments in general (physical space, virtual campus, etc.).

  • InterHEd draws on and interrelates the experience of all members in the partnership on the intersectional approach to inequality in educational public policies.

Methodological approach


The project uses a qualitative methodology based on situated learning through the use of training and work groups in which students and teachers from different disciplines (Audiovisual Communication, Journalism, Psychology, Translation and Interpretation, Economics and Business, Engineering, Sociology, Social Work, Sports Sciences and Health Sciences) participate. This methodology allows us to:

Map the specific needs of each academic context in relation to current educational resources in use to address inequalities in the classroom.

To test practically the materials produced to improve them and make them adaptable to other Higher Education contexts.


Beyond the working groups, the project also uses other qualitative techniques, such as the documentary review of the existing academic literature on pedagogy and intersectionality, and the participatory observation and evaluation of the activities proposed.

2023-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000160620

2023-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000160620