Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice

Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice
Title Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice PDF eBook
Author Marie Carlson
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 212
Release 2021-11-15
Genre Education
ISBN 3030809021

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This book presents ideas on education, gender and intersectionality through a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological borders. Exploring the diversity of educational settings ranging from early childhood to adult education, it brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss, deconstruct and problematize gender and education in relation to several themes in a comparative, intersectional, local, national, regional and international perspective. Each chapter approaches the topic in an intersectional and/or transnational manner and creates powerful gendered educational knowledge. Questions addressed in the book include: What are the challenges or barriers to gender-equal education? How can we understand the gaps between formal policies and educational practices? The chapters in the book illustrate how gender and education are relevant and needed concepts within the field of transdisciplinary research. The authors hail from a range of countries, such as Croatia, Indonesia, Turkey, UK, as well as the Nordic region, and they critically examine gender and education at all levels and in diverse sectors, and with varied lenses, such as neoliberalism in education, and the inclusion of newcomers and refugees. The work also critically investigates programs and pedagogical approaches, culture and values, knowledge and identity in teacher education. The book further addresses criticisms of Western and Anglophone bias around “white feminism” and the norm of white, male and heterosexual privilege.

Gender and the Politics of Schooling

Gender and the Politics of Schooling
Title Gender and the Politics of Schooling PDF eBook
Author Madeleine Arnot
Publisher Routledge
Pages 404
Release 2018-11-27
Genre Educational equalization
ISBN 9781138051072

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Originally published in 1987. The perspectives, research methods and strategies adopted by researchers and teachers to investigate gender and education have been diverse and contradictory. This book provides an overview of developments and analyses the range of policy responses to the issues of sex inequality as well. Divided into six parts, the first indicates the range of feminist theories conceptualizing gender and provides context for the following parts on equality of opportunity; gender, power and schools; and studies on class, race and gender. The last parts explore how education and training provision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were shaped by assumptions about masculinity and femininity; and examine patterns of policy making on equal opportunities at teacher, local and national levels.

Doing Sex Education

Doing Sex Education
Title Doing Sex Education PDF eBook
Author Bonnie Trudell
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 255
Release 2017-06-26
Genre Education
ISBN 1351705733

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Originally published in 1993. This book examines how a sexuality curriculum is actually taught to a ninth-grade health class and how it impacts on both the teacher and students. It tackles how sex education should be taught and even whether it should be taught.

Gender and the Politics of History

Gender and the Politics of History
Title Gender and the Politics of History PDF eBook
Author Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 294
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780231118576

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An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.

Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice
Title Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice PDF eBook
Author Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher Routledge
Pages 226
Release 2012-07-26
Genre Education
ISBN 113424181X

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Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government Organisations, NGOs and women’s groups since 1990 to combat this injustice. Written by a recognised expert in this field, the book is organised clearly into three parts: the first provides a background to the history of the provision of schooling for girls worldwide since 1945 and locates the challenges of gender inequality in education the second examines different views as to why questions of gender and schooling should be addressed globally, contrasting arguments based on human capital theory, rights and capabilities the third analyses how governments, Inter-Government Organisations and NGOs have put policy into practice. Addressing the urgent global challenges in gender and schooling, this book calls for a new connected approach in policy and practice. It is essential reading for all those interested in education, along with developmental studies, sociology, politics and women’s studies.

Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling

Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling
Title Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling PDF eBook
Author Wayne Martino
Publisher Routledge
Pages 296
Release 2012-03-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1136492852

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This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in elementary schools to address important issues regarding gender, race and the politics of representation. By including the perspectives of minority teachers and students, and by drawing on feminist, queer and anti-racist frameworks, this book rejects the familiar tendency to resort to role modelling as a basis for explaining or addressing boys’ disaffection with schooling. Indeed, the authors argue, on the basis of their research in urban schools in Canada and Australia, that educational policy concerned with male teacher shortage and the plight of disadvantaged minority boys would benefit from engaging with analytic perspectives and empirical literature that takes readers beyond hegemonic discourses of role modelling. A compelling case is presented for the need to disarticulate discourses about role modelling from a politics of representation that is committed to addressing the reality of the impact of racial and structural inequalities on both minority teachers and students’ participation in the education system. The book also provides insight into the persistence of gender inequality as it relates to the status of elementary school teaching as women’s work.

The Politics of Gender and Education

The Politics of Gender and Education
Title The Politics of Gender and Education PDF eBook
Author Suki Ali
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 256
Release 2004-03-04
Genre Education
ISBN 9781403904898

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What are the politics of gender within education? How are the issues of gender being explored in diverse educational settings? Does gender still matter in education? This book draws together the work from an international array of authors working at the cutting edge of gender research in education. From policy issues affecting single mothers to the co-optation of 'Southern learning' into Northern contexts, this collection provides a compelling argument for renewed engagement with gender issues at both macro and micro political levels within the full range of educational contexts--from primary to higher education.