Single‐sex Education for Girls
Heterosexuality, gendered subjectivity and school choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Watson (0000-0001-8889-1167), Susan A Watson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-383 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0142569970180304 |
| OpenAlex | W2084055949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 7 |
Single‐sex education for girls constitutes a focal point around which issues of gender, choice and educational decision‐making coalesce. My concern is not to enter the debate about the merits of single‐sex education for girls per se, but to examine the relationship between discourses of femininity and discourses around single‐sex schooling to see how they interact in the choice of single‐sex schools by girls and their parents. In this paper, I explore the ways in which aspects of feminist poststructuralist theory can be used to offer a more dynamic and complex account of the processes of school choice than that assumed by neo‐liberal theorists. The theory I develop is illuminated by interviews with three girls and their parents, from different social‐class backgrounds, at the point at which they were making decisions about which secondary school to apply for. A focus such as this enables me to do two things: firstly, to develop a more adequate understanding of the relationship between gender and educational decision‐making; and secondly, to critique the underlying theory of instrumental rationality, and its relationship to school choice, which has underwritten the marketisation of education in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Aotearoa · Epistemology · Femininity · Masculinity · Mathematics education · Rationality · School choice · Single sex · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2017 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |