Transforming Conversations
Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970
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Transforming Conversations
Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970
About this book
What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary, post-secondary, and adult education.
In this volume, teachers, professors, and educational administrators - many trailblazers themselves - document the historical experiences and outcomes of feminist action in university faculties of education, departments of educational administration, academic and professional societies, teachers’ unions, and community groups over the past five decades. They begin by exploring liberal feminism as an initial response to the historical context in which female educators spoke up for women’s rights and reshaped formal education systems. The contributors further explore how feminist theory was reconceptualized as women moved into formal leadership roles across education sectors. Last, contributors consider female educators at the intersection of gender and other systems of exclusion, such as race and class, despite ostensibly inclusive feminist theory that continues to be bounded by Western, colonial, neoliberal ideologies.
Transforming Conversations considers the complex effects feminism has had and continues to have on Canadian education, acknowledges voices that have been marginalized, and invites readers to continue a transformative feminist dialogue.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Transforming Conversations: Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970
- Part One Discourses of Teaching: Speaking Up
- Part Two Discourses of Leadership: Speaking Out
- Part Three Disrupting Discourses: Speaking Back to Feminism
- Coda Rounding Out the Conversation
- Conclusion: Moving On: An Invitation to Continue the Conversation
- Contributors
- Index