We are pleased to announce the following calls for papers; all three are fantastic opportunities and promise to be exciting events! 1. Neoliberalism, work and gender education (deadline for abstracts is 6 July) NGEWContinue reading
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White Working-Class Boys’ Learner Identities in Neoliberal Times
Garth Stahl, now at the University of South Australia, discusses his research in London, UK, on white working class boys. Garth’s book Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating White Working-class Boys is now available from Routledge.Continue reading
Generating ‘Good’ Ideas, Writing Good Papers and Reviewing Journal Articles: A free workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers who have not yet published in refereed academic journals
As part of the 2015 Gender and Education Association conference, the Gender & Education editorial team will be running a free workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers who have not yet published inContinue reading
Gender and economic equality in Scotland: mission (im)possible?
Unequal access to life opportunities continues to constitute a chronic impediment to education, participation in civic society and work, and health and well-being in Scotland, especially so of girls and women. It is a strikingContinue reading
Towards a politics of hope? Activism and gendered labour
In this blog post Janet Newman, Emeritus Professor at the Open University introduces her recent book Working the Spaces of Power: activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour. She asks, in these dire times, how might itContinue reading
2015 Biennial Conference of the GEA Association: Keynote speakers’ short bios and abstracts
2015 Biennial Conference of the GEA Association: Keynote speakers’ short bios and abstracts Prof. Katarina Eriksson Barajas, Linköping University, Sweden The Power of Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool for Eliciting Gender Discourses My paper examinesContinue reading
Feminisms, Power and Pedagogy: 10th Biennial Conference of the Gender and Education Association
Third and Final Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 10 January 2015 University of Roehampton, 24-26 June 2015 The tenth international biennial conference of the Gender and Education Association, Feminisms, Power and Pedagogy, will beContinue reading
Film and learning how to be a girl
By Dr. Kristina Gottschall, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst NSW Australia Governments, policy-makers, teachers, education researchers – we all think we know what teaching and learning or ‘pedagogy’ is all about. Indeed, we set our expectations,Continue reading
Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Special Issue Guest Editors: Sharon Todd, Rachel Jones and Aislinn O’Donnell Shifting Education’s Philosophical Imaginaries: Relations, Affects, Bodies, Materialities As Michèle Le Doeuff pointed out in her classic feminist work, The Philosophical Imaginary, images functionContinue reading
Policy Report for GEA, June 2014
FEMINISM, GENDER & UNIVERSITIES: POLITICS, PASSION & PEDAGOGIES (London: Ashgate 2014) Miriam E. David www.ashgate.com/sociology/9781472437112 Feminist scholarship, feminist knowledge and feminist pedagogies are all celebrated in this book and I hope to tempt you toContinue reading
