Jordanian Women in Education

Politics, Pedagogy and Gender Discourses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3945530
AutoresSalam Al-Mahadin (0000-0001-8326-9694, Department of English at the University of Petra in Jordan., autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen78
Número1
Páginas22-37
Fecha de publicación2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400188
OpenAlexW1988285510
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas18

The 'epistemic' violence that has beset gender discourses in education refutes the claim that progress is measured by figures and numbers of Jordanian women in schools and the workplace. While such discourses demand to be contextualized, deconstructed and resisted, they also necessitate creating a link between political praxis and gender politics. My argument centres on the indispensable role critical discourse can play in locating these instances of 'epistemic' violence and revealing the manner in which the themes of constructed gender knowledge have been subjugated to the political praxis of each context. Interventions by donors and NGOs have more often than not been emasculated by the political considerations of governments and establishments. The result has been 'disciplined' gender politics in education, perpetuating traditional discursive practices, roles and stereotypes instead of acting as an emancipatory power. Human development reports and traditional literature on gender bias in education have failed to account for such discursive/power practices. In this paper, I shed light on the national, the international and the textual 'knowledge' that surrounds gender bias in education in a context like Jordan. I conclude by demonstrating the importance of the national and its discursive practices in reformulating approaches based on the international (human development reports) and the textual (literature on gender bias and stereotypes in education

Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Praxis · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law