This book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with new research to address a variety of themes and provide a comprehensive, rounded history demonstrating the entanglement of educational experience and the influence of different modes of discrimination and prejudice. Using the lens of gender, Jane Martin reassesses the gendered nature of the modern history of education and provides an overview of intertwined aspects of education, society, politics and power. Its organisation is user friendly, providing accessible information with regard to chronologies of legislation and key events to reflect constancy and change, whilst ‘mapping’ the larger political, economic, social and cultural contexts, making it ideal for use as a textbook or a resource for teachers and students.
Author(s): Jane Martin
Series: Gender and History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Text Boxes
Chapter 1: A Chronological Introduction
Theme One: Enlightenment, Industrial Capitalism and the Sexual Division of Labour
Theme Two: Resistance, Socio-Political Movements and Universal Basic Education
Theme Three: From Social Democracy to Neoliberal Crisis
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Secondary Sources
Part I: Politics and Policies
Chapter 2: Gendering the Educational Landscape
Gender and the Politics of Historical Writing
Gendering the Politics of Experience
Thinking Gender and Generation Through Appropriating Bourdieu
Pearl Jephcott and the Gendering of British Social Science in Post-War Britain
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Secondary Sources
Chapter 3: Childhood, Education and the Family
Elite Education and the Gender Order
Elementary Education and the Making of Good Wives and Mothers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Parliamentary Papers
Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Gender Equity and the ‘Ladder of Opportunity’
Background and Inheritance: The Language of Scholarship Scripts
Secondary Education for All?
Failing Girls?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Parliamentary Papers
Secondary Sources
Chapter 5: Perspectives and Debates Since the 1970s
From Equal Opportunities to Identity Politics in a Competition State: Setting the Context
The Academically Underachieving Male: The New Disadvantaged?
Schooling and Its Impact on Gender Relations in New Times
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Published Reports
Published Speeches
Secondary Sources
Part II: Learners and Learning
Chapter 6: Culture and Curriculum
Viewing Elementary Curriculum Formulations Historically
Viewing Secondary Curriculum Formulations Historically
The Life Cycle of Women’s/Gender Studies in the 1960s and Beyond
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Secondary Sources
Chapter 7: Pupils
Description: Contexts and Biographies
Inside Schools and Classrooms
Climbing the Examination Ladder and Going Down the Snakes
Comprehensive Schooling
Conclusion: Making Connections
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Secondary Sources
Chapter 8: Students
Historicising Widening Participation
To Be Educated and Share with My People
Cultural Reproduction in the Historical World of the Ancient University
Changes and Continuities: The Situation after 1940
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Secondary Sources
Part III: Teachers and Teaching
Chapter 9: Women in Teaching
Feminisation and the Culture and Politics of Teachers’ Work
Pedagogies of Resistance: The Making of Kate Miriam Dice
Education and Democracy: The Making of Florence Key
Gender and Teaching in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Secondary Sources
Chapter 10: Gender Struggles
Women’s Liberation: The Breakthrough Generation?
Co-education: The Real Issue?
Inside the Comprehensive Secondary School: Programmes for Boys
Policy Strategies: The Feminist Touch?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Autobiographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Obituaries
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Other Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Published Reports
Secondary Sources
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Constancy and Change in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Newspapers and Periodicals of the Period
Secondary Sources
Appendix: Important and Influential Public Events
Index
