Learning from the women's movement about educational change

Bibliographic Data

ID2929341
AuthorsJane Gaskell (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume29
Issue4
Pages437-449
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300802410169
OpenAlexW2056043523
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

The women's movement in the 1970s and 1980s was a global phenomenon that achieved significant educational change. More analysis of how it developed and had an impact on education can inform our understanding of the possibilities for change today. This paper explores how the women's movement changed schooling in Vancouver in the 1970s, using a framework based on the idea of building civic capacity. The movement arose from a global politics, coalesced locally around new ideas, and created new relationships and institutional forms that drove school reform. Although the particular institutional forms that were created did not last, the impact of changed ideas and a new politics of equity have persisted, albeit in contested forms. The metaphor of building civic capacity for educational change is useful in focusing attention on ideas and institutions, but must be understood as contingent, shifting and fragile

Aesthetics · Educational Equity · Epistemology · Institutional change · Metaphor · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Public Administration

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