Update on EPESEP Work Package #3: Reading List

Progress Reports

1. ≠igfem (Austria) 📌 see update

   • read about the Austrian expert panel

2. Schamrock (Germany) 📌 see update

3. FixDit (Netherlands) 📌 see update

Brief

The EPESEP team is working with a panel of female experts consisting of authors, literary scholars, critics, historians, educationalists, publishers, booksellers and teachers to develop a feminist reading list for lessons in schools across Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Armenia which will be submitted to the respective Ministries of Education for adaptation, once completed.

Our Goal

The aim of the project is to create the following lists. At first, we work on lists for schools (these should contain approximately 100 titles per list)

Kindergarten

Elementary school

Secondary school

      o   “Lower level” (~10-14 years) (literature and feminist non-fiction)

      o   “Upper level” (~14-18 years) (literature and feminist non-fiction)

Further, we work on general lists for adults (these have no upper limit of titles)

Adults (literature)

Adults (feminist non-fiction)

University (literature and feminist non-fiction)

Our initial focus is on the lists for schools, in particular the lists for lower and upper secondary school.

Work Steps

Step 1: Inviting experts for the panel

Step 2: Collecting titles

Step 3: Evaluating titles and assigning them to an age group

Step 4: Recommending appropriate titles per age group

Step 5: Development of website/public database e.g. search functions for schooltype, age, century, country etc.

Step 6: Making the lists publicly available across countries