Jane Kenway
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 346574 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Kenway |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Kenway |
| FIRMA | KENWAY J |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1043-0218 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 646 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Distinctively Debbie
Debbie Epstein was Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Roehampton, London when she died on July 29th 2024, aged 79. Her contributions to education were profound ...
The ‘Better and Fairer Schools Agreement’; fairer funding but not fair
In 2024, the Australian Federal Labor Government announced the Better and FairerSchools Agreement 2025–2034, which sets policy, inter alia, for Australian school funding for the next ten years. This paper contributes to the critical policy analysis literature on school funding by undertaking a focused analysis of this recent policy, deploying a novel analytical framework. It explores and evaluates the likely impact of the BFSA on equity in fundin…
A critical policy juncture for public schooling
Moving ideas in environmental education
It is a rare delight to reflect on a lifetime’s publications from a leading figure in their field. Here, I offer my reflections on the collected works of Annette Gough—whom I have known for over thirty years. I begin with a discussion of her early days in the academy and the lively intellectual context in which she developed her ideas. Feminism had little presence in education at that time and, as I discuss, Annette helped to introduce it to envi…
The accumulation economy of private schools
Too few studies of elite private schools consider how they derive power and prestige from their relationships and interactions with other social and political groups and institutions, including the State. This paper contributes to elite school studies by examining the relationality between the Australian State and private sector schools around how government funds public and private education. Of all Australian students, 35.5% attend private scho…
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools
The sociological literature on elite private schooling is frequently informed by Bourdieu’s signature concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital. Yet, his insistence that economic capital is the ‘root’ of these other capitals is often overlooked or downplayed. This paper addresses this lacuna. While it gestures to Bourdieu’s other capitals, its primary focus is on finance itself and the various legal and accounting regimes that facilitate …
The Covid-19 conjuncture
The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying existing problems of economic asymmetry, and other injustices, between and within countries and regions around the world. It is thus imperative that sociological studies of education document its socio-cultural implications in different locations and on different scales. It is equally imperative that such studies have a historical perspective that asks what pre-existing social problems have been intensified a…
Elite universities
Elite universities are often believed to represent education’s gold standard and to produce highly educated luminaries who rightfully take their places leading all the institutions that matter in societies across the world. We begin by explaining how this is so. Then we discuss what we call monster methodologies, suggesting why and how we employed them to disrupt the seductive appeal of elite universities. Deploying zombie, werewolf, and vampire …
Private schools and tax advantage in England and Wales — the longue duree
England and Wales have a sizeable fee-paying private school sector including well- resourced elite schools conferring considerable advantage on their students. The majority have charitable status, yielding substantial tax breaks. This significant source of funding for the sector has attracted comparatively little attention from educational researchers. This paper offers a critical socio-legal historical analysis of the tax treatment of these scho…
New Sociologies of Elite Schooling
New Sociologies of Elite Schooling
Class Choreographies
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
Elite schools, class disavowal and the mystification of virtues
Elite schools claim an enticing array of virtues – superior educational standards and an elevated morality. This paper examines their moral claims and their relationship to such schools’ social class practices. Through research at seven elite schools around the world, we distil their appeals to moral discourses and show how they involve both class avowal and disavowal. We incorporate insights from Karl Marx on the ideological functioning of capit…
Seeking the Necessary ‘Resources of Hope’ in the Neoliberal University
If academics cannot defend the university as a democratic
Canvassing conversations
Studies of elites and elite education have largely not involved rigorous debate, either with regard to the conceptual resources deployed or methodologies adopted. Even the concepts elite and elite schools have not been problematized much. Further, there is a tendency for people to cite, rather than engage or dispute each other. So while the number of published studies increases and the field grows in size, and expands in focus, it is not necessar…
The gift economy of elite schooling
Privileged benefaction in elite schools and the moral dilemmas, contradictions and power politics involved are the focus of this paper. The notion of ‘the gift’ provides our analytical lens. We concentrate on two girls’ schools – one in South Africa and one in England. These were both built, in various ways, on the British model of public schooling. These schools pride themselves on their gifting practices. We offer a broad overview of the differ…
Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling
The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types stand firm or f
Through a Glass Darkly
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared
Introduction
This special issue is based entirely on the research project called ‘Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography' and this opening essay introduces both the project and the essays to follow. It offers a justification for studying elite schools, elites and elitism and explains some of the project's guiding premises not the least being its deliberate departure from those studies of elite schools that are…
Staying ahead of the game
How are elite schools caught up in the changing processes of globalisation? Is globalisation a new phenomenon for them? This paper focuses on the globalising practices that selected elite schools adopt. It also explores how globalisation is impacting on the social purposes of elite schools, which conventionally have been to serve privileged social groups. It seeks to begin a conversation about whether such schools are involved in securing advanta…
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
Elite schools are banks of emotion where the individuals and social classes that they serve deposit their desires and gain social dividends. They are also registers of social recognition and serve as spaces of collective capacity for their privileged clients. Elite schools have long been sites for the exercise of a form of affective agency by the wealthy and socially powerful. Many such people and groups have heavy emotional investments in the sc…
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
New directions for research on elites and elite education
Editors: Jane Kenway and Adam Howard Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st December 2013 Deadline for paper submissions: 1st July 2014 Since the 1970s, the methodological challenges specific to th
Multi-sited global ethnography and travel
This paper joins a barely begun conversation about multi-sited and global ethnography in educational research; a conversation that is likely to intensify along with growing interest in the links between education, globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism. Drawing on an ongoing multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools and globalisation, this paper explores the role of travel in multi-sited global ethnography and offers a fem…
Challenging inequality in Australian schools
In this paper I look at the most recent policy attempt to address the intractable issue of inequality in Australian schools, the Review of Funding for Schooling Final Report (2011), colloquially known as the ‘Gonski Report’, or simply ‘Gonski’. I highlight its important insights and some of its analytical limitations. I show how a fixation on sector-by-sector (government, Catholic and independent) analysis and disputation distracts from layers of…
Masculinity, Violence and Schooling
Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and 'spaces of points of view
This paper considers Bourdieu's concepts of perspectivism and reflexivity, looking particularly at how he develops arguments about these in his recent work, The Weight of the World (1999) and Pascalian Meditations (2000b). We explicate Bourdieu's distinctive purposes and deployment of these terms and approaches, and discuss how this compares with related methodological and theoretical approaches currently found in social and feminist theory. We b…
Staying ahead of the game
How are elite schools caught up in the changing processes of globalisation? Is globalisation a new phenomenon for them? This paper focuses on the globalising practices that selected elite schools adopt. It also explores how globalisation is impacting on the social purposes of elite schools, which conventionally have been to serve privileged social groups. It seeks to begin a conversation about whether such schools are involved in securing advanta…
Place, time and stigmatised youthful identities
International academic mobility
Through a Glass Darkly
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared
The elite school as 'cognitive machine' and 'social paradise
In this article we draw on Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power and his associated conceptual apparatus to examine Singapore as a 'field of power' and the formation of Singapore's 'state nobility' through an elite secondary school. We ask how well Bourdieu's conceptual apparatus travels, given Singapore's geo-political history and its strategic positioning with regard to what it calls its 'global hinterland'. We work…
Cultivating national leaders in an elite school
This paper explores the leadership cultivation practices of one elite school in Singapore. We point to the links between the habitus of the Singapore state and that of the school showing how different components of the school’s leadership curriculum deploy the transnational in order to produce leaders for the nation. In essence, we argue that the school is involved in a form of tactical globalisation which matches neatly that of the state itself.…
Marketing education in the postmodern age
This paper demonstrates that Australian public education is taking up a series of market identities and raises a number of selected matters that caused us concern as we both surveyed the field and the available critical literature and considered the social justice issues which are raised by markets in education. These matters are, first, the inadequacy of current conceptual, frameworks for categorizing various developments and, second, the relati…
Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’
This paper explores the work and effects of gender reform in schools through the use of feminist post‐structuralist theory. Focusing on the discourses designed to enhance girls’ post‐school options, it examines the ways in which teachers and students, particularly girls, write, read and rewrite these discourses and on the basis of this suggests some new directions for researching, theorising and practicing gender reform in schools. In particular,…
Elite schools, class disavowal and the mystification of virtues
Elite schools claim an enticing array of virtues – superior educational standards and an elevated morality. This paper examines their moral claims and their relationship to such schools’ social class practices. Through research at seven elite schools around the world, we distil their appeals to moral discourses and show how they involve both class avowal and disavowal. We incorporate insights from Karl Marx on the ideological functioning of capit…
Canvassing conversations
Studies of elites and elite education have largely not involved rigorous debate, either with regard to the conceptual resources deployed or methodologies adopted. Even the concepts elite and elite schools have not been problematized much. Further, there is a tendency for people to cite, rather than engage or dispute each other. So while the number of published studies increases and the field grows in size, and expands in focus, it is not necessar…
Challenging inequality in Australian schools
In this paper I look at the most recent policy attempt to address the intractable issue of inequality in Australian schools, the Review of Funding for Schooling Final Report (2011), colloquially known as the ‘Gonski Report’, or simply ‘Gonski’. I highlight its important insights and some of its analytical limitations. I show how a fixation on sector-by-sector (government, Catholic and independent) analysis and disputation distracts from layers of…
Self-representations of International Women Postgraduate Students in the Global University 'Contact Zone
This article explores some aspects of the role of race and gender in shaping women postgraduate students' experience of intercultural study. It focuses on various social and cultural aspects of their sojourn. These were suggested by data from two small pilot research projects investigating the experiences of two cohorts of international women postgraduate students, the one studying in an Australian university and the other, a Canadian. The author…
Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling
The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types stand firm or f
New education in new times
This paper is concerned with ‘new times’, new policies for education in Australia and the new issues that they generate for education. More particularly, the paper's focus is upon the various educational forms that have emerged now that governments have let the market ‘genie’ out of the bottle. It identifies particularly those market forms to which information and communication technologies are integral and a range of ways in which education, mar…
The gift economy of elite schooling
Privileged benefaction in elite schools and the moral dilemmas, contradictions and power politics involved are the focus of this paper. The notion of ‘the gift’ provides our analytical lens. We concentrate on two girls’ schools – one in South Africa and one in England. These were both built, in various ways, on the British model of public schooling. These schools pride themselves on their gifting practices. We offer a broad overview of the differ…
The Information Superhighway and Post-modernity
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural implications of converging technologies. It offers answers to questions about the implications for our quality of life, social justice and for politics in the context of post-modernity. Drawing together arguments from key commentators and critics from within and beyond cyberspace it identifies possibilities and potential dangers. The purpose of the paper is to assist educators to move beyond cu…
Introduction
This special issue is based entirely on the research project called ‘Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography' and this opening essay introduces both the project and the essays to follow. It offers a justification for studying elite schools, elites and elitism and explains some of the project's guiding premises not the least being its deliberate departure from those studies of elite schools that are…
Multi-sited global ethnography and travel
This paper joins a barely begun conversation about multi-sited and global ethnography in educational research; a conversation that is likely to intensify along with growing interest in the links between education, globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism. Drawing on an ongoing multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools and globalisation, this paper explores the role of travel in multi-sited global ethnography and offers a fem…
Spatialized leisure-pleasures, global flows and masculine distinctions
Drawing from our 'place-based global ethnographies' of out-of-the-way places in Australia, this paper explores ways that spatialized leisure-pleasures inform the production of intergenerational masculinities in globalizing remote places. We examine three kinds of amusement and three accompanying shades of masculinity; the sacrosanct, subversive and scorned. Sacrosanct masculinities involve spatially embedded, culturally sanctified leisure-pleasur…
Left right out
In recent years there has been a shift in popular thinking and government policy on education in Australia, away from the social democratic consensus of the Karmel era, towards a Rightist perception. While a number of sources of this movement may be identified, in this paper I will focus on the politics of discourse. Drawing on Laclau's and Mouffe's developments of Gramsci's theory of hegemony, I will explore the ways in which various educational…
Masculinities in Schools
(1995). Masculinities in Schools: under siege, on the defensive and under reconstruction? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 59-79
Thinking in a 'worldly' way
In order to enhance understandings of the international mobility of researchers and the implications of their mobility for knowledge production and circulation, we need to develop more sophisticated conceptual resources. Here we draw on and seek to develop ideas generated from literary theory and geography in order to highlight the links between internationally mobile researchers, knowledge, geography and power. In particular, we develop three in…
Subcultural capital and the female ‘underclass’? A feminist response to an underclass discourse
It is often argued that economically marginalized young women occupy a school and post-school underclass, and that this underclass has a particular culture associated with it. Such views provoke a profound ambivalence in many of those who work with such young people. On the one hand, they are anxious to acknowledge the culture of the communities to which marginalized young women belong. On the other hand, they wish to avoid the pernicious implica…
The Ties that Bind
(1984). The Ties that Bind: Old Girls' and Old Boys' Associations. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Feminist Single-sex Educational Strategies
Left right out
In recent years there has been a shift in popular thinking and government policy on education in Australia, away from the social democratic consensus of the Karmel era, towards a Rightist perception. While a number of sources of this movement may be identified, in this paper I will focus on the politics of discourse. Drawing on Laclau's and Mouffe's developments of Gramsci's theory of hegemony, I will explore the ways in which various educational…
Gender Justice? Feminism, State Theory & Educational Change
Marketing education in the postmodern age
This paper demonstrates that Australian public education is taking up a series of market identities and raises a number of selected matters that caused us concern as we both surveyed the field and the available critical literature and considered the social justice issues which are raised by markets in education. These matters are, first, the inadequacy of current conceptual, frameworks for categorizing various developments and, second, the relati…
Parents and Educational Politics
(1993). Parents and Educational Politics. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 439-444
New education in new times
This paper is concerned with ‘new times’, new policies for education in Australia and the new issues that they generate for education. More particularly, the paper's focus is upon the various educational forms that have emerged now that governments have let the market ‘genie’ out of the bottle. It identifies particularly those market forms to which information and communication technologies are integral and a range of ways in which education, mar…
Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’
This paper explores the work and effects of gender reform in schools through the use of feminist post‐structuralist theory. Focusing on the discourses designed to enhance girls’ post‐school options, it examines the ways in which teachers and students, particularly girls, write, read and rewrite these discourses and on the basis of this suggests some new directions for researching, theorising and practicing gender reform in schools. In particular,…
Masculinities in Schools
(1995). Masculinities in Schools: under siege, on the defensive and under reconstruction? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 59-79
The Information Superhighway and Post-modernity
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural implications of converging technologies. It offers answers to questions about the implications for our quality of life, social justice and for politics in the context of post-modernity. Drawing together arguments from key commentators and critics from within and beyond cyberspace it identifies possibilities and potential dangers. The purpose of the paper is to assist educators to move beyond cu…
Reasserting masculinity in Australian schools
Gender and the restructuring of work and vocational education in Australia
This paper discusses the restructuring of the world of work and education and training in Australia and its implications for women and girls. It outlines some of the ways in which government policies are restructuring the Australian workforce and workplaces and points to the promises this agenda makes and the possible price of these for women. It then focuses on the changes taking place in the post‐compulsory years of schooling, also in Australia…
Introduction
(1996). Introduction: the marketisation of school education: feminist studies and perspectives. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 301-314
Are boys victims of feminism in schools? Some answers from Australia
This paper attends to some of the issues surrounding the controversial topic of the education of boys in Australian schools. It particularly focuses upon two questions: 'Are boys victims of feminism in schools?' and 'Are boys victims of their emotions?' In answering both questions, the authors draw from empirical studies that enquire into gender reform in schools and girls' and boys' responses to it. Generally, the paper makes the case for a peda…
Masculinity, Violence and Schooling
Taking Stock of Gender Reform Policies for Australian Schools
This paper begins with a brief narrative of the past 20 years of gender reform for Australian schools and of recent developments — including the attention paid to boys’ education. This narrative points to the implications of changing Commonwealth federal state relations for gender reform. The second section offers an account of the micro‐politics of macro‐reforms. This draws from research on the reception of gender reform policies in schools and …
Institutions with designs
This paper is concerned with the ways in which schools in Australia are participating in their own commodification. It identifies the main features of this process, and focuses specifically on the ways in which a group of working class/under‐class students in both primary and secondary schools in a provincial Australian city read their schools’ commodification practices and write themselves in and out of such identity scripts in inter‐textual way…
Toxic Shock
The paper explores the complex issue of workplace violence as it is experienced by young males who are victims of various forms of abuse. It highlights, through use of media reports and composite vignettes, the range of violent practices that some young males experience at work. By way of interpretation the different events are placed within a context of literature that explores the links between masculinities and violence. Through Alice Miller's…
Education in the Age of Uncertainty
How are we to educate young people of, and for, these times in a way which takes into account the existential and moral dilemmas of our age? We argue that the current education system fails to address the full implications of historical change in relation to ethics and equity. In what follows, we offer some ways of describing and theorising contemporary life in an age of uncertainty. We offer it as a knowledge base from which teachers, principals…
Managing Youth Transitions in the Network Society
Castells argues that society is being reconstituted according to the global logic of networks. This paper discusses the ways in which a globalised network logic transforms the nature of young people’s transitions from school to work. Furthermore, the paper explores the ways in which this network logic restructures the manner in which youth transitions are managed via the emergence of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) agenda in Australian …
Education
(2002). Education: Multiple stakeholders, creative tensions. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, Investing in Social Capital: Postgraduate training in the social sciences in Australia, pp. 161-180
Place, time and stigmatised youthful identities
Self-representations of International Women Postgraduate Students in the Global University 'Contact Zone
This article explores some aspects of the role of race and gender in shaping women postgraduate students' experience of intercultural study. It focuses on various social and cultural aspects of their sojourn. These were suggested by data from two small pilot research projects investigating the experiences of two cohorts of international women postgraduate students, the one studying in an Australian university and the other, a Canadian. The author…
Real or Imagined Women? Staff representations of international women postgraduate students 1
In Australia's globalising universities many support staff and teaching staff now work with international women postgraduate students. But are they aware of the issues facing these women, and is their understanding of them adequate? Indeed, how do they represent them? In this paper we draw on a small-scale pilot study involving key university personnel. We argue that the ways in which such staff represent this group of students is problematic. Fo…
Answering Back
Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in school…
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