Miriam David
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 614 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Distinctively Debbie: Portraits of the professional and political contributions of Debbie Epstein 1945–2024
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 ...
Thanks For Typing: Thanks to my wife: gender and politics in the academy [Audio podcast episode]
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Gains and Pains of the Cashless Policy in Nigeria on Akwete-Ndoki Community, Abia State
This study examined the effects of the cashless policy on Akwete Ndoki community in Abia state. This policy according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to the best interest of Nigerians. It will help to check terrorism financing, counterfeiting and imbalances in fiscal space as well as to enable CBN take control of the currency in circulation. However, despite the perceived benefits of this policy, it also inflicted pains on the masses. The…
Hannah Arendt on educational thinking and practice in dark times: Education for a world in crisis
Hannah Arendt on educational thinking and practice in dark times: Education for a world in crisis." British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(3), pp. 435–436
A Jewish Sisterly Tribute to Nira
Death of the Public University? Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Femifesta? A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century
I discuss the challenges that feminist activists in academia have raised about how to deal with violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-related violence (GRV) through education and training. Whilst VAWG and GRV have been on feminist agendas since the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 1960s and 1970s they were rarely linked with key demands for equal educational opportunities. It is still the case that feminist …
Sara delamont: An Appreciation
Femifesta? Reflections on writing a feminist memoir and a feminist manifesto
This is a reflective account of the publication of two books in the same year (2016): Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny and Feminist Manifesto for Education. The former is a popular but scholarly memoir, and the latter is an academic text for sociology and education. It was never my intention to publish one, let alone, two books but I was spurred to do so by the prevailing socio-political and cultural climate: what I now see clea…
Reclaiming feminism: Challenging everyday misogyny
Feminism, activism and academe: A Personal Reflection
How the political project of feminism entered academe and how it became an educational project is the subject of this article. It is based upon personal reflection about undertaking the study for a book, Feminism, Gender and Universities: politics, passion and pedagogies. In the book, three successive generations or cohorts of feminists in academia are discussed, starting with those who are now considered ‘second-wave feminists’. In this article …
Gender & Education Association: A case study in feminist education
This article focuses on feminist activist academics who were instrumental in creating the UK Gender & Education Association at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on my own intellectual biography (David, M. E. 2003. Personal and Political: Feminisms, Sociology and Family Lives Stoke-on-Trent. Trentham Books.) linked to the collective biography and life history of feminism in academia over the last 50 years, Feminism, Gender & Universiti…
Young people, family, sex and education policies: A feminist reflection
I reflect upon the changing socio-economic contexts for the development of UK/British/English education policies for young people over the last 50 years. I do so from a feminist perspective and focus on the waves of development from social democracy through to neo-liberalism, and its current form as a crisis of capitalism and an age of austerity. There has been a changing trajectory for policies about young people and sexuality over the post-war …
Tributes to Jean Anyon
Thinking education feminisms: Engagements with the work of Diana Leonard
Diana Leonard, who died aged 68 on 27 November 2010, was a feminist, sociologist and political activist. A feisty feminist academic and activist, she was a founder member of the editorial board of
Gender, power and management: A cross-cultural analysis of higher education
Overview of researching global higher education: Challenge, change or crisis
Higher education is in crisis as it has been changing in response to major challenges, economically, politically and socially, on an international scale. How we now understand and research global higher education is challenging given the expansions in relation to the knowledge economy, economic, social and political developments around equality, diversity and social justice in global labour markets. The social sciences have become critical to the…
Diversity, gender and widening participation in global higher education: A feminist perspective
This article is a critique of the expansion of higher education in global and national contexts. First I provide an analysis of the transformation of higher education as a form of 'academic capitalism' and how second-wave feminist critiques and pedagogies have become incorporated as have women, amongst other social groups, in increasingly diverse forms of post-compulsory education. Yet, the transformations in global higher education have not been…
Children, their world, their education: Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review
edited by Robin Alexander, London, Routledge, 2009, 592 pp., £95.00 (hardback), £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐54870‐0 (hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐41‐554871‐7 (paperback) This publication provides n
The sociology of disability and education
Diversity, gender and widening participation in global higher education: A feminist perspective
This article provides an overview of global higher education focusing particularly on issues of diversity and gender. The main evidence is drawn from seven unique projects on Widening Participation in Higher Education funded by the British Government’s Higher Education Funding Council for England and administered through the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme. The issues are contextualised from a femin…
Celebrations and Challenges: Gender in Higher Education
Social Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education in the 21st Century: Towards a Feminist Critique
Research Quality Assessment and the Metrication of the Social Sciences
The British system of quality assessment of research in universities, known as the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), has recently been the subject of major public policy review and debate. The system of research quality or performance assessment has been running for over twenty years, although many of its facets have changed as has the increasingly marketised political economy. Nevertheless, the UK RAE has been the prototype for the growth and …
Challenges of diversity for widening participation in UK higher education
This special issue celebrates research conducted under the Economic & Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme, particularly the suite of seven projects funded unde
Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, 'Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process
This paper draws on data from an on-going ESRC project on choice of higher education. It focuses primarily on the experiences of non-traditional applicants to higher education. Although these students are not typical of the entire university entry cohort, their narratives raise important issues in relation to race, class and higher education choice processes. These `success stories' reveal important causes for concern as well as reasons for celeb…
Classification' and 'Judgement: Social class and the 'cognitive structures' of choice of Higher Education
The issue of social-class-related patterns of access to Higher Education (HE) has become a matter of public debate in the UK recently, but is on the whole portrayed one-sidedly in terms of issues of selection (elitism), and the social dimensions of choice are neglected. Here, drawing on an Economic and Social Research Council research study, choice of HE is examined using Bourdieu's concepts of 'classification' and judgement'. HE is viewed in ter…
Making a Difference: Institutional Habituses and Higher Education Choice
Few studies have focussed on the impact made by individual institutions on the attainment of prospective university applicants and their subsequent destinations within higher education. In this paper we deploy the concept of institutional habitus in order to explore such influences. In spite of an inevitable degree of overlap and blurring of boundaries between peer group, family and institution we argue that there are specific effects from attend…
Ethnic Choosing: Minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice
There is now a considerable body of research on the issue of minority ethnic access to higher education. There is much less work done on minority ethnic students' experiences of higher education and almost none on how such students choose the higher education institution they attend. This article draws upon an Economic and Social Research Council funded study of student choice of higher education and concentrates on the analysis of a subsample of…
It's Taking Me a Long Time but I'll Get There in the End’: Mature students on access courses and higher education choice
The UK policy rhetoric of commitment to widening access to higher education has identified mature students as playing a pivotal role in the expansion and reform of higher education. The article draws on the experiences of 23 mature access students in an inner London further education college in order to explore the range of opportunities and constraints mature students confront in their efforts to make the transition to higher education. In parti…
Gender Issues in Parental Involvement in Student Choices of Higher Education
This article explores gender, social class and ethnic issues in parental involvement in students' choices of higher education. It draws upon interviews with students and their parents, who were a small group of an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study of students' higher education choice processes in the UK. Gender was highly significant in several respects, illustrating changes in higher education over the last 20 years, whereby more…
Choice Within Constraints: Mothers and schooling
This article explores the discourses of choice in the context of the current, and international, public policy debates about providing freedom of choice for parents as consumers in the education market place. In particular it explores the public and private discourses of choice to illustrate the argument that mothers as parents are not 'free to choose' but act within a range of constraints. We term these both structural and moral constraints and …
Children and School‐based Research: ‘Informed Consent’ or ‘Educated Consent’
This article discusses ‘informed consent’ in relation to research with children and young people in educational settings. In particular, it reflects upon issues that arose in the process of gaining their active consent to participate in the authors’ research on children's understandings of parental involvement in education. In line with contemporary approaches to research with children, the children were provided with ‘information’ through leafle…
Feminist Theory and Educational Policy: How Gender Has Been "Involved" in Family School Choice Debates
Children, their world, their education: Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review
edited by Robin Alexander, London, Routledge, 2009, 592 pp., £95.00 (hardback), £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐54870‐0 (hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐41‐554871‐7 (paperback) This publication provides n
Choices and destinations at transfer to secondary schools in London
It has been argued that the recent parental choice reforms in the UK favour middle‐class families. The paper reports quantitative and qualitative research evidence drawn from a recent ESRC‐funded study. In this study, middle‐class children were neither significantly more likely to be offered a place at their family's first‐choice school nor to be offered more places per application made. It is argued that routes through the education system have …
Equity and diversity: Towards a sociology of higher education for the twenty‐first century
When I agreed to write a review essay on social change and higher education, I did not fully appreciate quite what a complex and diverse field of studies I would have to consider, and this essay th
Social Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education in the 21st Century: Towards a Feminist Critique
Parental Involvement in Education in and out of School
This paper explores the ways in which parents—mothers and fathers—are involved in their children's education both in and out of school. It compares involvement of families with children in the final year of primary education (or its equivalent) in state and private schools, and amongst the state school parents compares families in terms of social class and mothers’ educational level. The findings indicate that mothers generally assume overriding …
Power, pedagogy and personalization in global higher education: The Occlusion of Second-Wave Feminism
In this paper, in keeping with developing feminist methodologies, we reflect on how we became second-wave feminists in the 1970s. We consider how the theories and practices that we were involved in have been changed as the global socio-political context has transformed higher education practices. Second-wave feminism originated as a political project around ‘the personal’. As it entered the academy, feminism developed and drew on emerging concept…
A massive university or a university for the masses?’ Continuity and change in higher education in Spain and England
This paper discusses whether the massification of higher education (HE) in the majority of developed countries over the last few decades has led to changes in the form of involvement in universities for the masses, or massive universities for the expanding middle classes. Situating our argument with the evidence of massive expansion of HE in England and Spain, and using Bourdieu's theoretical framework, we compare two studies that looked at wheth…
Introduction: Themed Section on Evidence-Based Policy as a concept for Modernising Governance and Social Science Research
The concept of evidence-based policy and practice has many origins but its relation to the growth of the social sciences is arguably the most important. The uses of the social sciences for both understanding and transforming social policies and political systems has come to be assumed – complex and problematic though these may be. The concept is also closely linked with the concepts of globalisation, technological developments, and the ‘knowledge…
Death of the Public University? Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Overview of researching global higher education: Challenge, change or crisis
Higher education is in crisis as it has been changing in response to major challenges, economically, politically and socially, on an international scale. How we now understand and research global higher education is challenging given the expansions in relation to the knowledge economy, economic, social and political developments around equality, diversity and social justice in global labour markets. The social sciences have become critical to the…
Femifesta? A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century
I discuss the challenges that feminist activists in academia have raised about how to deal with violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-related violence (GRV) through education and training. Whilst VAWG and GRV have been on feminist agendas since the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 1960s and 1970s they were rarely linked with key demands for equal educational opportunities. It is still the case that feminist …
Femifesta? Reflections on writing a feminist memoir and a feminist manifesto
This is a reflective account of the publication of two books in the same year (2016): Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny and Feminist Manifesto for Education. The former is a popular but scholarly memoir, and the latter is an academic text for sociology and education. It was never my intention to publish one, let alone, two books but I was spurred to do so by the prevailing socio-political and cultural climate: what I now see clea…
Celebrations and Challenges: Gender in Higher Education
Feminist sociology and feminist knowledges: Contributions to higher education pedagogies and professional practices in the knowledge economy
This article uses feminist methodologies of critical and personal reflections to consider the contributions that feminist sociology and sociology of education have made to developments in the pedagogies and practices of higher education, particularly professional and postgraduate education. First, the article reviews the contributions of women and feminists to developing feminist theories and methodologies over the last three or four decades. It …
Home‐School Relations or Families, Parents and Education
Sheila Wolfendale & Keith Topping, 1996 Family Involvement in Literacy. Effective Partnerships in Education London and New York, Cassell
The New Right in the Usa and Britain: A new anti-feminist moral economy
Moral issues, especially about the family and sexual morality, have become central to debates on social policy in both Britain and the USA. This article examines the genesis and form of those debates in both countries at the level of national politics. It is argued that the new right, in the USA represented chiefly by the Moral Majority, and in Britain by rightwing pressure groups on the present Tory government, have stolen the initiative and are…
The English Sixth Form: A Case Study in Curriculum Research
Professionalism and Participation in School Budgeting in the USA
The purpose of this essay is to examine aspects of educational policy-making at the local level in the USA. I shall present some empirical evidence to support the claims that local control by citizens is an illusion rather than a reality and that the professional educators have a large measure of discretion in determining the organization of education in their local communities. The evidence is adduced from an intensive study of the budgetary pro…
Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America
Women and Pre-School Child Care in the U.S.A
Women caring for pre-school children in the USA
Les mesures prises aux USA pour les enfants d'âge préscolaire et leurs parents, surtout les mères, font l'objet de cette étude. Les mesures sociales, pédagogiques et fiscales qui ont été, soit débattues, soit développées par le gouvernement fédéral dans les deux dernières décennies, y sont discutées. Elles montrent les présomptions qui étayent la politique de l'état vis-à-vis des femmes dans une société capitaliste avancée. La division sexuelle e…
Social Policy and Education: Towards a political economy of schooling and sexual divisions
(1981). Social Policy and Education: towards a political economy of schooling and sexual divisions. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 115-127
The New Right in the Usa and Britain: A new anti-feminist moral economy
Moral issues, especially about the family and sexual morality, have become central to debates on social policy in both Britain and the USA. This article examines the genesis and form of those debates in both countries at the level of national politics. It is argued that the new right, in the USA represented chiefly by the Moral Majority, and in Britain by rightwing pressure groups on the present Tory government, have stolen the initiative and are…
Central Questions and Some Answers: The State of the Sociology of Education
Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum By L en B arton et al. (eds.) Education and The State By R oger D ale et al. (eds.) The Missing Half: Girls and Science Education By A lison K elly (ed.)
The State, the Family and Education
Day Care Policies and Parenting
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Women in Washington: Advocates for Public Policy Irene Tinker (ed) Sage, Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies Vol.7
Motherhood and social policy-a matter of education
The Challenge of Change: Perspectives on Family, Work, and Education
Morality and maternity: Towards a better union than the moral right's family policy
Teaching Family Matters
Teaching family matters is a matter of some political controversy. The New Right—both government and ‘pro‐family’ political pressure groups—seeks to reinforce and revive the traditional nuclear family through education, especially for family life. This is a response to what is perceived as the ‘problem of the family‘—the increase in ‘working mothers’ in lone or two‐parent families, and lone‐parent families as a result of divorce, separation, teen…
Child Welfare and Social Defence
Comparisons of ‘Education Reform’ in Britain and the USA: A new era
This paper compares and contrasts the origins, objectives and outcomes of the New Right education reform movements in Britain and the USA. It considers whether the education reforms will create a new era for schools, in terms of diversity of public and private provision and social, sexual and racial differentiation. This is despite the emphasis on quality or excellence in education as opposed to equality of educational opportunity. The origins of…
A Gender Agenda: Women and family in the new ERA
This paper explores the relationship between the Conservative ‘educational reforms’ in the 1980s, which purported to give parents more democratic rights as consumers and participants in education, and changes in family life in Britain. It focuses on those demographic, familial changes, in particular in gender relationships, towards mothers having more public and private responsibilities for children and their education. It looks at whether these …
Family and education policy: Recent research developments
Parents, Gender and Education Reform
From Beveridge to Borrie and Beyond
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Choice and Markets in Education: A Critique of Some Key Texts
Where are the children in home-school relations? Notes towards a research agenda
In this article we unpack the assumptions behind the dominant British research, policy and practice home-school relations consensus that holds parents' involvement and participation in their children's education to be unquestionably necessary and beneficial. It presupposes a one-way relationship between parents and children in which children are implicitly placed as dependent and inert recipients of the decisions and activities of parents and tea…
Where are the children in home–school relations? Notes towards a research agenda
In this article we unpack the assumptions behind the dominant British research, policy and practice home‐school relations consensus that holds parents' involvement and participation in their children's education to be unquestionably necessary and beneficial. It presupposes a one‐way relationship between parents and children in which children are implicitly placed as dependent and inert recipients of the decisions and activities of parents and tea…
Choice Within Constraints: Mothers and schooling
This article explores the discourses of choice in the context of the current, and international, public policy debates about providing freedom of choice for parents as consumers in the education market place. In particular it explores the public and private discourses of choice to illustrate the argument that mothers as parents are not 'free to choose' but act within a range of constraints. We term these both structural and moral constraints and …
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