Gaby Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 265910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaby Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaby |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Getting in, getting on, getting out’
Research into the impact of neoliberalism has shown that institutional and individual pressure on staff working in Higher Education (HE), has changed over the last 30 years. Our first research study showed that the changes resulted in mostly negative experiences for White staff. In a second study we have investigated the impact of neoliberalism on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff to investigate whether experiences matched those of th…
Class choreographies
I have two abiding memories of a recent visit to India, in respect of the impact of the British Empire. The first is of a queue of children in school uniforms (white shirts and skirts and long trou
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
A collection of essays by various contributors each addressing Martineau's contribution to an intellectual discipline. Introduction and Afterword by Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. I have also contributed one chapter on Martineau's Journalism
Youth citizenship and the politics of belonging
Gender power in elite schools
The main task of this paper is to understand the methodological insights from researchers’ reflexive accounts about the production of gender in the specific practices of three Scottish elite schools. Accordingly, the paper poses three questions: How is gender re/constructed through the specific practices of these elite schools? What insights into these specific school gender regimes are offered in researchers’ reflexive accounts? What methodologi…
Gendering/ed research spaces
This paper draws on a research study into multiple capitals in independent schooling in Scotland. We examine gender discourses and practices in the specific inter/institutional space created within school and research group relations. A three-level conceptual framing of physical, social and intellectual space is used together with theorizations of power/knowledge and social capital theory, to analyse instances of gender discourse and practice wit…
Dancing at the Edge
Drawing on our experience of working in Sweden and seeking to help colleagues enter the prestigious culture of Anglophone academic text production, this article explores the landscape of academic writing and publishing. We first provide an account of the birth of academic writing and the gradual emergence of its present forms. We then explore academic writing as it is practised in the first decade of the 2000s; and finally, we consider the future…
Slippage and/or symbolism
This article provides an overview and analysis of the relationship between gender, educational policy, and governance in Scotland and Sweden and the two countries’ response to European Union and global legislative and policy change. In Scotland, gender is mainly invisible in recent policies on inclusion, achievement beyond academic attainment, and the idealisation of the child. Gender is thus marginalised within a range of factors contributing to…
Rethinking contemporary feminist politics
Capitalizing on sport’
This paper draws on a research study into the existence and use of different forms of capital – including social, cultural and physical capital – in three independent schools in Scotland. We were interested in understanding how these forms of capital work to produce and reproduce advantage and privilege. Analysis is framed by a multiple capitals approach drawing on and developing the work of Putnam and especially Bourdieu. We suggest that sport p…
Gender equality and education in Spain
This paper explores the differential influence of government ideology and education governance on the gender policies of socialist and conservative administrations in Spain from 1983 onwards.The first national policies which favoured equal rights for men and women in education, employment, and social and political life were developed under a European framework and promoted by the National Institute for Women, and governments of the autonomous com…
Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition, edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg
The sound of silence! Reflections on inclusion and exclusion in the field of gender and education
The aim of this article is to start a debate about the inclusiveness/exclusiveness of the field of gender and education, and what change might be possible. While we focus on the field of gender and education as a whole (including its journals and academic practices), our main sources of evidence are our own experiences as gender researchers on different sides of the Anglophone divide, and a small survey of articles in this journal, Gender and Edu…
Olive Banks and the collective biography of British feminism
This paper considers Olive Banks’ work on charting the history and development of British feminism, and particularly her use of collective biography as a research and analytic tool. It is argued that while this has been seen as the least ‘fashionable’ aspect of her work, it took forward C. Wright Mills’ contention for one definition of sociology as the interaction between biography and history, and predated by a decade or so similar work on proso…
Under-stated powerhouses
This paper presents a study from the Scottish Independent School Project (SISP). The first part of the paper provides an overview of the characteristics of Scottish independent schools (e.g. location, structure, fees) with the aim of distinguishing the different orientations of schools in the sector. The second and main part of the paper is a discourse-based analysis of the website texts of three case-study schools to show how schools discursivel…
Fast policy, fast theories and fast lives
Performing and reforming leaders: gender, educational restructuring, and organizational change, by Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs, New York, State of New York Press, 2007, xiii + 310 pp., US$29.95
Gender, research and change in teacher education
This paper explores the factors that are at present reconstructing teacher education in Sweden and in other European countries, including professionalization, inherited traditions, feminization and globalization. The authors use as a basis for the paper: documentary analysis and nearly 60 qualitative semi‐structured interviews with management and teaching staff from teacher education at one Swedish higher education institution, Umeå University. F…
Bilateral Vision
Eurokid
Most schools in today's Europe have a high percentage of immigrant students. This percentage has increased in typical immigration countries such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France and the UK. However, this is also true for countries such as Sweden or Spain. Aware of this multicultural picture, in this paper we present the methodological approach of a European Comenius project, "Eurokid", based on the template "Britkid" (see www.…
Auditing Failure
This article addresses school effectiveness and school improvement, as they have been interpreted through UK central and local government policy. It focuses, in particular, on recent forms of inspection and the impact they have had on schools and other educational bodies. It draws on Power's conceptualisation of the Audit Society, to understand the appeal of this form of research to politicians and administrators. Reflecting on a number of perspe…
Disturbing boundaries in teacher education
This paper describes and reflects on strategies developed at Umea University to raise the profile of gender within teacher education. In attempting to address 'fears of feminism' of many teacher educators in Sweden (as elsewhere), an ongoing seminar was organized that, it was hoped, would stimulate awareness and discussion of gender issues and also address any fears of feminism that might remain. The aim was to identify gender theoretical, resear…
Closing the Gender Gap
New era or old times
This paper argues that past debates concerning class influences on education in the UK were inadequate because they disregarded girls' and womens' values and life patterns. New analytic frameworks involving a synthesis of gender, class and other social formations are needed to develop an understanding about how changing patterns of wealth and poverty and/or recent British educational reforms have affected student learning and life‐chances; and th…
Here a little, there a little ̊s
The UK is part of an international and global higher education movement, which is characterised by five significant trends—a shift from élite to mass higher education; reduction of financial resources; concern to maintain quality and relevance; concerns about graduate employment; and growing internationalisation of higher education teaching, training and research. This article considers the impact of this global movement on groups in the UK which…
Getting Published
Research Resource: Getting Published is an ESRC funded project based jointly at South Bank and Warwick Universities from April 1996 to March 1998. The project aims to offer a critical assessment of academic publishing in the fields of education, sociology and psychology. It seeks to answer such questions as 'who gets published?', on what basis?', 'for what purposes?' and 'for what readership?'
Under-stated powerhouses
This paper presents a study from the Scottish Independent School Project (SISP). The first part of the paper provides an overview of the characteristics of Scottish independent schools (e.g. location, structure, fees) with the aim of distinguishing the different orientations of schools in the sector. The second and main part of the paper is a discourse-based analysis of the website texts of three case-study schools to show how schools discursivel…
Capitalizing on sport’
This paper draws on a research study into the existence and use of different forms of capital – including social, cultural and physical capital – in three independent schools in Scotland. We were interested in understanding how these forms of capital work to produce and reproduce advantage and privilege. Analysis is framed by a multiple capitals approach drawing on and developing the work of Putnam and especially Bourdieu. We suggest that sport p…
The sound of silence! Reflections on inclusion and exclusion in the field of gender and education
The aim of this article is to start a debate about the inclusiveness/exclusiveness of the field of gender and education, and what change might be possible. While we focus on the field of gender and education as a whole (including its journals and academic practices), our main sources of evidence are our own experiences as gender researchers on different sides of the Anglophone divide, and a small survey of articles in this journal, Gender and Edu…
Feminist Education and Equal Opportunities
(1986). Feminist Education and Equal Opportunities: unity or discord? British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 265-274
Getting in, getting on, getting out’
Research into the impact of neoliberalism has shown that institutional and individual pressure on staff working in Higher Education (HE), has changed over the last 30 years. Our first research study showed that the changes resulted in mostly negative experiences for White staff. In a second study we have investigated the impact of neoliberalism on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff to investigate whether experiences matched those of th…
Slippage and/or symbolism
This article provides an overview and analysis of the relationship between gender, educational policy, and governance in Scotland and Sweden and the two countries’ response to European Union and global legislative and policy change. In Scotland, gender is mainly invisible in recent policies on inclusion, achievement beyond academic attainment, and the idealisation of the child. Gender is thus marginalised within a range of factors contributing to…
Ethical Practice in an Unjust World
Evaluation brings together power and knowledge in quite specific ways, this complex relationship providing the focus for this paper. Such a relationship is particularly important for educational evaluators with an explicit commitment to achieving increased social justice. How might the ethical practice developed by, for example, feminists or anti‐racists, be applied to educational evaluation? This paper provides a preliminary discussion of these …
Social justice and the National Curriculum
This paper, first presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference 1 1 This is a revised version of a paper presented to the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, Newcastle Unversity, September 1989. 1. This is a revised version of a paper presented in the Social Justice Symposium at the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, York University, September 1997. at Newcastle…
Professional Self‐knowledge versus Social Justice
This paper has two parts. First it explores the development of teacher research on gender ‐ from the Schools Council Sex Differentiation Project which ended in 1983 to recent initiatives in INSET. It argues that teacher research on gender has made important contributions both to exploration of gender inequalities in schooling and to the development of equal opportunities strategies, particularly within INSET. The second part of the paper suggests…
Gender power in elite schools
The main task of this paper is to understand the methodological insights from researchers’ reflexive accounts about the production of gender in the specific practices of three Scottish elite schools. Accordingly, the paper poses three questions: How is gender re/constructed through the specific practices of these elite schools? What insights into these specific school gender regimes are offered in researchers’ reflexive accounts? What methodologi…
Gender, research and change in teacher education
This paper explores the factors that are at present reconstructing teacher education in Sweden and in other European countries, including professionalization, inherited traditions, feminization and globalization. The authors use as a basis for the paper: documentary analysis and nearly 60 qualitative semi‐structured interviews with management and teaching staff from teacher education at one Swedish higher education institution, Umeå University. F…
Auditing Failure
This article addresses school effectiveness and school improvement, as they have been interpreted through UK central and local government policy. It focuses, in particular, on recent forms of inspection and the impact they have had on schools and other educational bodies. It draws on Power's conceptualisation of the Audit Society, to understand the appeal of this form of research to politicians and administrators. Reflecting on a number of perspe…
Disturbing boundaries in teacher education
This paper describes and reflects on strategies developed at Umea University to raise the profile of gender within teacher education. In attempting to address 'fears of feminism' of many teacher educators in Sweden (as elsewhere), an ongoing seminar was organized that, it was hoped, would stimulate awareness and discussion of gender issues and also address any fears of feminism that might remain. The aim was to identify gender theoretical, resear…
New era or old times
This paper argues that past debates concerning class influences on education in the UK were inadequate because they disregarded girls' and womens' values and life patterns. New analytic frameworks involving a synthesis of gender, class and other social formations are needed to develop an understanding about how changing patterns of wealth and poverty and/or recent British educational reforms have affected student learning and life‐chances; and th…
Here a little, there a little ̊s
The UK is part of an international and global higher education movement, which is characterised by five significant trends—a shift from élite to mass higher education; reduction of financial resources; concern to maintain quality and relevance; concerns about graduate employment; and growing internationalisation of higher education teaching, training and research. This article considers the impact of this global movement on groups in the UK which…
Gendering/ed research spaces
This paper draws on a research study into multiple capitals in independent schooling in Scotland. We examine gender discourses and practices in the specific inter/institutional space created within school and research group relations. A three-level conceptual framing of physical, social and intellectual space is used together with theorizations of power/knowledge and social capital theory, to analyse instances of gender discourse and practice wit…
Rethinking contemporary feminist politics
Feminist Education and Equal Opportunities
(1986). Feminist Education and Equal Opportunities: unity or discord? British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 265-274
Gender and the politics of schooling
Professional Self‐knowledge versus Social Justice
This paper has two parts. First it explores the development of teacher research on gender ‐ from the Schools Council Sex Differentiation Project which ended in 1983 to recent initiatives in INSET. It argues that teacher research on gender has made important contributions both to exploration of gender inequalities in schooling and to the development of equal opportunities strategies, particularly within INSET. The second part of the paper suggests…
Ethical Practice in an Unjust World
Evaluation brings together power and knowledge in quite specific ways, this complex relationship providing the focus for this paper. Such a relationship is particularly important for educational evaluators with an explicit commitment to achieving increased social justice. How might the ethical practice developed by, for example, feminists or anti‐racists, be applied to educational evaluation? This paper provides a preliminary discussion of these …
Social justice and the National Curriculum
This paper, first presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference 1 1 This is a revised version of a paper presented to the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, Newcastle Unversity, September 1989. 1. This is a revised version of a paper presented in the Social Justice Symposium at the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, York University, September 1997. at Newcastle…
Henry Duckett
Getting Published
Research Resource: Getting Published is an ESRC funded project based jointly at South Bank and Warwick Universities from April 1996 to March 1998. The project aims to offer a critical assessment of academic publishing in the fields of education, sociology and psychology. It seeks to answer such questions as 'who gets published?', on what basis?', 'for what purposes?' and 'for what readership?'
New era or old times
This paper argues that past debates concerning class influences on education in the UK were inadequate because they disregarded girls' and womens' values and life patterns. New analytic frameworks involving a synthesis of gender, class and other social formations are needed to develop an understanding about how changing patterns of wealth and poverty and/or recent British educational reforms have affected student learning and life‐chances; and th…
Here a little, there a little ̊s
The UK is part of an international and global higher education movement, which is characterised by five significant trends—a shift from élite to mass higher education; reduction of financial resources; concern to maintain quality and relevance; concerns about graduate employment; and growing internationalisation of higher education teaching, training and research. This article considers the impact of this global movement on groups in the UK which…
Disturbing boundaries in teacher education
This paper describes and reflects on strategies developed at Umea University to raise the profile of gender within teacher education. In attempting to address 'fears of feminism' of many teacher educators in Sweden (as elsewhere), an ongoing seminar was organized that, it was hoped, would stimulate awareness and discussion of gender issues and also address any fears of feminism that might remain. The aim was to identify gender theoretical, resear…
Closing the Gender Gap
Auditing Failure
This article addresses school effectiveness and school improvement, as they have been interpreted through UK central and local government policy. It focuses, in particular, on recent forms of inspection and the impact they have had on schools and other educational bodies. It draws on Power's conceptualisation of the Audit Society, to understand the appeal of this form of research to politicians and administrators. Reflecting on a number of perspe…
Eurokid
Most schools in today's Europe have a high percentage of immigrant students. This percentage has increased in typical immigration countries such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France and the UK. However, this is also true for countries such as Sweden or Spain. Aware of this multicultural picture, in this paper we present the methodological approach of a European Comenius project, "Eurokid", based on the template "Britkid" (see www.…
Bilateral Vision
Gender, research and change in teacher education
This paper explores the factors that are at present reconstructing teacher education in Sweden and in other European countries, including professionalization, inherited traditions, feminization and globalization. The authors use as a basis for the paper: documentary analysis and nearly 60 qualitative semi‐structured interviews with management and teaching staff from teacher education at one Swedish higher education institution, Umeå University. F…
Olive Banks and the collective biography of British feminism
This paper considers Olive Banks’ work on charting the history and development of British feminism, and particularly her use of collective biography as a research and analytic tool. It is argued that while this has been seen as the least ‘fashionable’ aspect of her work, it took forward C. Wright Mills’ contention for one definition of sociology as the interaction between biography and history, and predated by a decade or so similar work on proso…
Under-stated powerhouses
This paper presents a study from the Scottish Independent School Project (SISP). The first part of the paper provides an overview of the characteristics of Scottish independent schools (e.g. location, structure, fees) with the aim of distinguishing the different orientations of schools in the sector. The second and main part of the paper is a discourse-based analysis of the website texts of three case-study schools to show how schools discursivel…
Fast policy, fast theories and fast lives
Performing and reforming leaders: gender, educational restructuring, and organizational change, by Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs, New York, State of New York Press, 2007, xiii + 310 pp., US$29.95
Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition, edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg
The sound of silence! Reflections on inclusion and exclusion in the field of gender and education
The aim of this article is to start a debate about the inclusiveness/exclusiveness of the field of gender and education, and what change might be possible. While we focus on the field of gender and education as a whole (including its journals and academic practices), our main sources of evidence are our own experiences as gender researchers on different sides of the Anglophone divide, and a small survey of articles in this journal, Gender and Edu…
Gender equality and education in Spain
This paper explores the differential influence of government ideology and education governance on the gender policies of socialist and conservative administrations in Spain from 1983 onwards.The first national policies which favoured equal rights for men and women in education, employment, and social and political life were developed under a European framework and promoted by the National Institute for Women, and governments of the autonomous com…
Dancing at the Edge
Drawing on our experience of working in Sweden and seeking to help colleagues enter the prestigious culture of Anglophone academic text production, this article explores the landscape of academic writing and publishing. We first provide an account of the birth of academic writing and the gradual emergence of its present forms. We then explore academic writing as it is practised in the first decade of the 2000s; and finally, we consider the future…
Slippage and/or symbolism
This article provides an overview and analysis of the relationship between gender, educational policy, and governance in Scotland and Sweden and the two countries’ response to European Union and global legislative and policy change. In Scotland, gender is mainly invisible in recent policies on inclusion, achievement beyond academic attainment, and the idealisation of the child. Gender is thus marginalised within a range of factors contributing to…
Rethinking contemporary feminist politics
Capitalizing on sport’
This paper draws on a research study into the existence and use of different forms of capital – including social, cultural and physical capital – in three independent schools in Scotland. We were interested in understanding how these forms of capital work to produce and reproduce advantage and privilege. Analysis is framed by a multiple capitals approach drawing on and developing the work of Putnam and especially Bourdieu. We suggest that sport p…
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (21 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works)