Gender in Learning and Teaching: Feminist Dialogues Across International Boundaries (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

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. The gendered history of bildung as concept and practice : a speculative feminist analysis / Carol A. Taylor -- Paired dialogue : notes on the potential of a feminist bildung : a French perspective? / Joël Lebeaume -- Epistemic gender positioning : an analytical concept to (re)consider classroom practices within the French didactique research tradition / Chantal Amade-Escot -- Paired dialogue : subjects of learning and pedagogical encounters / Susanne Gannon -- Queering dissection : "I wanted to bury its heart, at least" / Sara Tolbert -- Paired dialogue : didactic transposition of scientific knowledge in the classroom / Florence Ligozat -- Gender, the postmodern paradigm shift, and pedagogical anthropology / Anja Kraus -- Paired dialogue : ways of knowing : bodies, knowledge and power / Carol Taylor -- Tackling intersecting gender inequalities through disciplinary based higher education curricula : a Bernsteinian approach / Andrea Abbas -- Paired dialogue : can a Bernsteinian focus on intersecting gender inequalities support curriculum and disciplinary change? / Isabelle Collet -- An historical exploration of gender representations in French scientific and technological education school textbooks / Joël Lebeaume -- Paired dialogue : gender differentiation in craft and domestic education : contrasting national approaches / Carrie Paechter -- Temporalities, pedagogies and gender-based violence education in Australian schools / Susanne Gannon -- Paired dialogue : toward an articulation of the two layers of didactic transposition / Chantal Amade-Escot -- Butterflies for girls, tornadoes for boys : primary school science teaching in France and Geneva / Isabelle Collet -- Paired dialogue : pokemon, dragons and dinosaurs : a narrative of gender and science in/exclusions and why tackling them matters / Sara Tolbert -- Playing, teaching and caring : generative productions of gender and pedagogy in/through early years assemblages / Nikki Fairchild -- Paired dialogue : humanities, pedagogy and didactics: the tacit dimensions of early childhood education / Anja Kraus -- Students gendered learning in physical education : a didactic study of a French multi-ethnic middle school in an underprivileged area / Ingrid Verscheure and Claire Debars -- Paired dialogue : sport, physical education and gender : analysing complex pedagogic encounters / Andreas Abbas -- Beyond binary discourses : making LGBTQI+ identities visible in the curriculum / Carrie Paechter -- Paired dialogue : why some bodies matter more than other bodies : a posthumanist/ new material feminist perspective / Nikki Fairchild -- In conversation : debating gender and feminism in learning, teaching and didactics / Carol A. Taylor and Florence Ligozat Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of figures 10 Notes on contributors 12 Preface 16 Acknowledgements 18 1 Introduction: debates across Anglophone and European Didactic traditions 20 2 The gendered history of Bildung as concept and practice: a speculative feminist analysis 30 Paired dialogue: notes on the potential of a feminist Bildung – a French perspective 40 3 Epistemic gender positioning: an analytical concept to (re)consider classroom practices within the French didactique research tradition 43 Paired dialogue: subjects of learning and pedagogical encounters 54 4 Queering dissection: ‘I wanted to bury its heart, at least’ 58 Paired dialogue: didactic transposition of scientific knowledge in the classroom 69 5 Gender, the postmodern paradigm shift and Pedagogical Anthropology 73 Paired dialogue: ways of knowing – bodies, knowledge and power 83 6 Tackling intersecting gender inequalities through disciplinary-based higher education curricula: a Bernsteinian approach 87 Paired dialogue: can a Bernsteinian focus on intersecting gender inequalities support curriculum and disciplinary change? 98 7 A historical exploration of gender representations in French scientific and technological education school textbooks 102 Paired dialogue: gender differentiation in craft and domestic education – contrasting national approaches 115 8 Temporalities, pedagogies and gender-based violence education in Australian schools 118 Paired dialogue: towards an articulation of the two layers of didactic transposition 129 9 Butterflies for girls, tornadoes for boys: primary school science teaching in France and Geneva 133 Paired dialogue: Pokemon, dragons and dinosaurs – a narrative of gender and science in/exclusions and why tackling them matters 141 10 Playing, teaching and caring: generative productions of gender and pedagogy in/through early years assemblages 146 Paired dialogue: humanities, pedagogy and didactics – the tacit dimensions of early childhood education 156 11 Students’ gendered learning in physical education: a didactic study at a French multi-ethnic middle school in an underprivileged area 161 Paired dialogue: sport, physical education and gender – analysing complex pedagogic encounters 172 12 Beyond binary discourses: making LGBTQI+ identities visible in the curriculum 176 Paired dialogue: why some bodies matter more than other bodies – a post-humanist/new material feminist perspective 187 13 In conversation: debating gender and feminism in learning, teaching and didactics 191 Index 200