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Working-Class Boys and Educational Success
Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling
Inbunden, 2018
1276 kr
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This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some …
Art, Education and Gender
The Shaping of Female Ambition
Av Gill Hopper
Inbunden, 2015
1064 kr
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Why do girls study art and why do girls become primary teachers? This book examines and reveals the powerful influence of the family, the school and the state in shaping female identity and constructing notions of gender appropriateness. It also discusses the status of art at school and the …
Gender Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning and Tracing Gender in Higher Education
Av E. Henderson
Inbunden, 2014
641 kr
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When addressed in its full reactive potential, gender has a tendency to unfix the reassuring certainties of education and academia. Gender pedagogy unfolds as an account of teaching gender learning that is rooted in Derrida's concept of the 'trace', reflecting the unfixing properties of gender and …
Queer Teachers, Identity and Performativity
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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What do we mean when we talk about 'queer teachers'? The authors here grapple with what it means to be sexually or gender diverse and to work as a school teacher within four national contexts: Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA. This new volume offers academics, educators and students a …
Higher Education, Leadership and Women Vice Chancellors
Fitting in to Communities of Practice of Masculinities
Inbunden, 2015
536 kr
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Why are there so few women vice chancellors in UK higher education? In this book, Paula Burkinshaw explores the contemporary conversation around the 'missing women at the top' across UK society through in-depth interviews with the (hitherto) silent voices of women vice chancellors. These women have …
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Inbunden, 2016
1170 kr
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This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on the …
Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education
Managing to Survive in the Education Marketplace?
Inbunden, 2016
536 kr
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This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into …
Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People
Theories in Practice
Inbunden, 2018
1064 kr
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This book explores contemporary issues in sexuality and relationship education for young people. Drawing upon rich empirical and ethnographic research undertaken with students and teachers in secondary schools, the author asks how school-based sexuality education can better equip young people to …
Masculinity, Class and Music Education
Boys Performing Middle-Class Masculinities through Music
Av Clare Hall
Inbunden, 2018
1464 kr
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This book offers a provocative sociological examination of masculinity, class and music education within the context of a unique and fascinating culture: the classical musical world of choirboys. The myriad cultural meanings embodied in the ‘boy voice’ are unravelled through compelling musical …
Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs'
Inbunden, 2016
1064 kr
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This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too …
Girl's Education
Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Future Visions
Av Judith Gill, Katharine Esson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
853 kr
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This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls …
Higher Education, Leadership and Women Vice Chancellors
Fitting in to Communities of Practice of Masculinities
Häftad, 2015
536 kr
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Why are there so few women vice chancellors in UK higher education? In this book, Paula Burkinshaw explores the contemporary conversation around the 'missing women at the top' across UK society through in-depth interviews with the (hitherto) silent voices of women vice chancellors. These women have …
From Labouring to Learning
Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization
Häftad, 2018
356 kr
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Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a …
Being an Early Career Feminist Academic
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges
Av Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland
Häftad, 2020
313 kr
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This book highlights the experiences of feminist early career researchers and teachers from an international perspective in an increasingly neoliberal academy. It offers a new angle on a significant and increasingly important discussion on the ethos of higher education and the sector's place in …
Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy
Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality
Inbunden, 2019
1487 kr
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This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged …
Men in Early Childhood Education and Care
Gender Balance and Flexibility
Av Jo Warin
Häftad, 2019
536 kr
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This book examines the current interest in recruiting and supporting more men in the early childhood education workforce. Drawing on extensive empirical data from case studies of an unusual English preschool setting and interviews with Swedish male preschool staff, the author explores the potential …
Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning
Häftad, 2018
2803 kr
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This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alternatives to …
Exploring Sexuality in Schools
The Intersectional Reproduction of Inequality
Inbunden, 2019
959 kr
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This book explores the place of sexuality in a Hungarian vocational school. Building upon ethnographic research using a post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical framework, the author highlights the voices of teachers and students in their everyday environment and gives them the opportunity …
Exploring Sexuality in Schools
The Intersectional Reproduction of Inequality
Häftad, 2020
959 kr
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This book explores the place of sexuality in a Hungarian vocational school. Building upon ethnographic research using a post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical framework, the author highlights the voices of teachers and students in their everyday environment and gives them the opportunity …
Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research
Av Tiffany Jones, Leanne Coll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1487 kr
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This book showcases and celebrates the work of Gender and Sexuality Education scholars in order to challenge current negative interpretations of the field, and work towards new shared visions. The editors and contributors call for, affirm and offer examples of pathways towards exciting and dynamic …
Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research
Av Tiffany Jones, Leanne Coll m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1064 kr
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This book showcases and celebrates the work of Gender and Sexuality Education scholars in order to challenge current negative interpretations of the field, and work towards new shared visions. The editors and contributors call for, affirm and offer examples of pathways towards exciting and dynamic …
Mature-Age Male Students in Higher Education
Experiences, Motivations and Aspirations
Av Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming, Aileen Morris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
536 kr
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This book explores the unique set of challenges faced by mature-age male undergraduates as they adapt to university study. The authors examine the motivations of mature male students for enrolling in higher education and their aspirations for life after graduation, in doing so filling a crucial gap …
Positioning and Making of Female Professors
Pushing Career Advancement Open
Av Rowena Murray, Denise Mifsud
Inbunden, 2019
1382 kr
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This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active ‘making’ of careers, and how this has been possible. The editors and contributors cut across …
Positioning and Making of Female Professors
Pushing Career Advancement Open
Av Rowena Murray, Denise Mifsud
Häftad, 2020
959 kr
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This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active ‘making’ of careers, and how this has been possible. The editors and contributors cut across …
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe
Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts
Av Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1487 kr
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This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of …
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe
Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts
Av Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1487 kr
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This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of …
Academic Women in Neoliberal Times
Inbunden, 2020
1064 kr
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This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the …
Academic Women in Neoliberal Times
Häftad, 2021
1064 kr
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This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the …
Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education
Interrupting Career Categories
Av Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor
Inbunden, 2020
536 kr
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To do feminism and to be a feminist in higher education is to repeat oneself: to insist on gender equality as more than institutional incorporation and diversity auditing, to insert oneself into and against neoliberal measures, and to argue for nuanced intersectional feminist analysis and action. …
Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education
Interrupting Career Categories
Av Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor
Häftad, 2021
536 kr
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To do feminism and to be a feminist in higher education is to repeat oneself: to insist on gender equality as more than institutional incorporation and diversity auditing, to insert oneself into and against neoliberal measures, and to argue for nuanced intersectional feminist analysis and action. …
