Gender in Learning and Teaching brings together leading gender and feminist scholars to provide a unique collection of international research into learning and teaching. Through dialogues across national traditions and boundaries, the authors provide new insights into the relations between feminist scholarship of pedagogy, gender and didactics, and offer in-depth accounts that critically investigate how gender relations are enacted, contested and analysed at the level of the classroom, the curriculum, and the institution.
Drawing on original research, the chapters explore gender dynamics in relation to student-teacher interactions, gendered classroom practices, curriculum content and knowledge formation in different subjects. The book includes accounts of innovative approaches to curriculum development to address gender inequality. It includes new theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches which provide fresh insights into gendered practices including intersectionality, new material feminism, epistemic gender positioning and cultural anthropology. The chapters span all education phases from early years to higher education.
This book makes a compelling case for the continuing relevance of feminist pedagogy and the urgent need for strategies to address gender inequalities in the classroom and beyond. It will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of theory, philosophy and feminist politics of learning and teaching; education and didactics; feminism and pedagogy; sociology and the arts.
Author(s): Carol A. Taylor, Chantal Amade-Escot, Andrea Abbas
Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: debates across Anglophone and European Didactic traditions
2 The gendered history of Bildung as concept and practice: a speculative feminist analysis
Paired dialogue: notes on the potential of a feminist Bildung – a French perspective
3 Epistemic gender positioning: an analytical concept to (re)consider classroom practices within the French didactique research tradition
Paired dialogue: subjects of learning and pedagogical encounters
4 Queering dissection: ‘I wanted to bury its heart, at least’
Paired dialogue: didactic transposition of scientific knowledge in the classroom
5 Gender, the postmodern paradigm shift and Pedagogical Anthropology
Paired dialogue: ways of knowing – bodies, knowledge and power
6 Tackling intersecting gender inequalities through disciplinary-based higher education curricula: a Bernsteinian approach
Paired dialogue: can a Bernsteinian focus on intersecting gender inequalities support curriculum and disciplinary change?
7 A historical exploration of gender representations in French scientific and technological education school textbooks
Paired dialogue: gender differentiation in craft and domestic education – contrasting national approaches
8 Temporalities, pedagogies and gender-based violence education in Australian schools
Paired dialogue: towards an articulation of the two layers of didactic transposition
9 Butterflies for girls, tornadoes for boys: primary school science teaching in France and Geneva
Paired dialogue: Pokemon, dragons and dinosaurs – a narrative of gender and science in/exclusions and why tackling them matters
10 Playing, teaching and caring: generative productions of gender and pedagogy in/through early years assemblages
Paired dialogue: humanities, pedagogy and didactics – the tacit dimensions of early childhood education
11 Students’ gendered learning in physical education: a didactic study at a French multi-ethnic middle school in an underprivileged area
Paired dialogue: sport, physical education and gender – analysing complex pedagogic encounters
12 Beyond binary discourses: making LGBTQI+ identities visible in the curriculum
Paired dialogue: why some bodies matter more than other bodies – a post-humanist/new material feminist perspective
13 In conversation: debating gender and feminism in learning, teaching and didactics
Index
