feminist perspective in education

Introduction. In sociology, the feminist view of education is a perspective that examines how education systems perpetuate gender inequalities and reinforce traditional gender roles. This viewpoint analyzes various aspects of education, including curriculum, teaching methods, and institutional practices, to understand how they impact gender socialization and contribute to the overall gender ...

Feminist theory informs both research questions and the methodology of a project in addition to serving as a foundation for analysis. The goals of feminist educational research include dismantling systems of oppression, highlighting gender-based disparities, and seeking new ways of constructing knowledge. ... Teacher education and feminist ...

Feminist sociologists have large areas of agreement with functionalists and Marxists in so far as they see the education system as transmitting a particular set of norms and values into the pupils. However, instead of seeing these as either a neutral value consensus or the values of the ruling class and capitalism, feminists see the education system as transmitting patriarchal values.

Introduction to This Guide. Feminist pedagogy is not a toolbox, a collection of strategies, a list of practices, or a specific classroom arrangement. It is an overarching philosophy—a theory of teaching and learning that integrates feminist values with related theories and research on teaching and learning.

The Feminist perspective on Education Liberal Feminists celebrate the progress made so far in improving girls' achievement. They essentially believe that the 'Future is now Female' and now that girls are outperforming boys in education, it is only a matter of time until more women move into politics and higher paid, managerial roles at ...

As deSaxe (2014) argued in her support of intentionally teaching critical feminist theory in teacher education, acknowledging the lived experience for teachers creates "spaces to begin and renew vital conversations" (p. 550), equipping teachers to challenge yet another epistemological stance, that of binary oppositions and other modernist ...

Introduction. Feminism has now influenced nearly all the academic disciplines and traditions and has also informed newer areas of inquiry as they have come into existence. Feminist thought has been fairly contagious, with insights arising in one corner of the academy being "caught" in others. Thus the scholarship of, say, a feminist ...

Abstract. This chapter examines current debates and trends in gender and feminist inquiry in the history of education, noting the influence of feminist history more broadly, as well as influences deriving from the specific field of education. Key historiographical concerns are illustrated with case examples, most drawn from Australia.

education from a feminist perspective to denounce forms of clas s, race and gender segregation as . well as the masculi ne patriarchal do m i n a t io n. At t he en d, a n a n alytical meta-sy ...

Abstract. Feminist sociology of education is one of the richest veins within the discipline today. Although its specific contribution is the analysis of gender relations in education, it has added substantially to an understanding of the broader relationship between education and society. Within the feminist project, history, structure and ...

bell hooks - A scholar, feminist, and activist whose work focuses on intersectionality, feminism, and critical pedagogy.. Paulo Freire - Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a philosopher of education whose work became the foundation of critical pedagogy.Read more about Freire.. Peter McLaren - A leading scholar in critical pedagogy whose work relates to Marxist theory, critical literacy, and cultural ...

In consideration of recent related studies, Alhumaid points out the promising effects of CP in collaboration with a feminist perspective in education. Her findings reveal that feminist insights in school not only lead to an improvement of educational theory but also of learner autonomy (Alhumaid, 2019). Accordingly, through the raising of ...

Conflict theorists see schools as a means for perpetuating class, racial-ethnic, and gender inequalities. In the same vein, feminist theory focuses specifically on the mechanisms and roots of gender inequality in education. The theory of symbolic interactionism focuses on education as a means for labeling individuals.

Brenton Wimmer, MEd PhD Graduate Student Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education University of Oklahoma. education and student affairs: Theory, research, narratives and practice from feminist perspectives. % ,-., Women of Color in Higher Education: Turbulent Past, Promising Future, 012.34.

Miriam David, Sue Clegg Power, pedagogy and personalization in global higher education: the occlusion of second-wave feminism?, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29, no.4 4 (Dec 2008): 483-498.

Critical reflection on how to understand gender and education is evident in writings on African feminism (Decker and Baderoon Citation 2018; Kwachou Citation 2020), decoloniality (Frost Citation 2011; Bhambra Citation 2014), new materialism (Harding Citation 2017) and queer theory (Butler Citation 1990; Martino and Cumming-Potvin Citation 2018 ...

Work in feminist theory, including research regarding gender equality, is ongoing. Gender equality continues to be an issue today, and research into gender equality in education is still moving feminist theory forward. For example, Pincock's (2017) study discusses the impact of repressive norms on the education of girls in Tanzania.

Feminist pedagogy is an approach to education that brings to bear feminist theory, feminist activism, and women's experiences on educational content, the learning environment, the relationship between teacher and student, and the connection between the learning environment and the outside world. The approach emerged as a clear educational ...

Extending this further, DeVault, 1999 (p.30-31) usefully outlines three central tenets of feminist research. First, that feminists seek a methodology that shifts the focus of standard practice from men's concerns in order to reveal the locations and perspectives of (all) women. Second, feminists seek to minimize harm and control in the ...

these frameworks which a feminist perspective can bring to teacher education. Feminist Perspectives, Mothers , and Schools Feminist researchers have begun to break the silence on the family in the schooling literature. A first focus, typified by the work of David (1980) and Davin (1978), explicates historical and contemporary policy

This article is a blueprint for using feminist theory as a le ns in educational research. Feminis t theory explores how. systems of power and oppression int eract. The theory highlights social ...

For example, feminist lawyers advocated for statutory anti-harassment protocols in higher education institutions and feminist teachers claimed that a gender perspective should be mainstreamed in the curriculum of all education levels, including universities.

The key feminist perspectives on education are summarised in this A-Level Sociology revision video.

ABSTRACT. This paper examines attacks on higher education in Palestine through the lens of siege warfare. Focusing on attacks directed against Kadoorie campus in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, it argues that the combination of military, infrastructural, industrial and administrative tactics which have been used to isolate and enclose the campus; raid, injure, maim and kill people and animals ...