Feminist Critical Policy Analysis I

by Marshall,Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780750706353
• ISBN10: 075070635X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Feminist Critical Policy Analysis 1identifies and challenges the traditional power basis of policy makers in education, which have led to others being silenced, declared irrelevant, or otherwise ignored.

Table of Contents

Part 1: What happens when feminism is an agenda of the State? feminist theory and the case of education policy in Australia, L. Yates; gender policies in American education - reflections of federal legislation and action, N. Stromquist; gender and the reports - the case of the missing pieces, L. Weis; feminist approaches to gender equality and schooling in the 1990s, M. David and M. Arnot. Part 2: the politics of evading gender in teacher education - in pursuit of new practices and policies, S. Hollingsworth; discourses of computing confidence, evaluation and gender - the case of computer use in the primary classroom, P. Singh; decentering silences/troubling/irony - a feminist postmodern approach to policy analysis, W. Pillow; tales froman "annoying, black girl trapped in a white girl's body, who acts like a boy" - gender adolescence and schooling, N. Adams. Part 3: feminist anlaysis of sexual harrassment policy - a critique of the ideal of community, J. Laible; transforming Western science - lessons from feminist scholarship, L. Parker.