{"title":"LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions","authors":"Tiffany Jones","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2219688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2219688","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Definitions of ‘religious freedom’ around schools’ treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) students have been regularly debated internationally, with little input from LGBTIQA+ students. Transformative theories of religious freedom around sex, gender and sexuality in education suggest religious freedom cannot counter equality. This study uses data from the 2022 Gender and Sexuality Expression in Schools Survey to explore 1293 Australian LGBTIQA+ students’ relevant experiences and definitions around religious freedom in schools. Basic descriptive and correlative statistical analyses were undertaken for quantitative data in SPSS and Excel including chi square tests; alongside Leximancer-supported thematic analyses and poetic transcription of qualitative responses. LGBTIQA+ students defined ‘religious freedom’ as positive freedoms of religious (non-)memberships and (non-)beliefs, without interpersonal/institutional harm or coercion. They often framed freedom using ‘transformative’ pro-LGBTIQA+ ideals. LGBTIQA+ students were less likely to experience ‘religious freedom’ in religious schools; where policy and educational interventions appear necessary.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"552 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48966842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching about gender violence, with and for gender justice: epistemological, pedagogical and ethical dilemmas","authors":"Lyndsay McLean","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2206848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2206848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper reflects on teaching a postgraduate degree which aims to support students to understand and challenge gender violence and contribute to gender justice. It explores three dilemmas: (i) epistemological – how to create a curriculum which embraces diverse knowledges and decentres perspectives which can produce violence; (ii) pedagogical – how to create a learning space which generates intersectional gender justice; (iii) ethical – how to engage with violence suffered by others – and selves – without propagating further harm. Exploring how the author navigates these dilemmas, the paper argues that teaching this degree entails more than developing students’ theoretical knowledge and critical analysis skills. It requires providing opportunities for students to contribute to the degree and supporting them to build skills in self-reflection, empathetic communication and collective witnessing. It means making space for students to work through precarious moments and process their own encounters with gender injustice and violence.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"469 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41327310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective alignment and epistemic polarization: the case of feminist research in the neoliberalized university","authors":"Rebecca W. B. Lund","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2215067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2215067","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores affective alignment and epistemic polarization in the field of feminist research, resulting from the neoliberalization of the universities and a performance-oriented research economy. Previous research has described and analysed the ‘epistemic splitting’ that feminist scholars engage in to live up to standardized performance measures and be perceived as ‘proper knowers’ in the neoliberalized university. This article is based on data from 26 interviews with feminist academics, presented as 5 composites, that let us in on their practices and socially organized experiences within the neoliberalized academy. I draw on Sarah Ahmed’s theory of affective alignments to analyse how practices of epistemic splitting are affectively instigated and impelled.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"68 11","pages":"437 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41289613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘From a guy’s perspective’? Male students, masculinity and autobiographical loneliness narratives","authors":"Richard Vytniorgu, F. Cooper, M. Barreto","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2213726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2213726","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While student loneliness is increasingly visible on the research agenda, the relationship between gender and loneliness among students remains unclear. This article employs a feminist perspective on loneliness to interrogate the role of masculinity in shaping male students’ experiences of loneliness at a UK Russell Group university. We argue that a feminist approach to male students’ loneliness decentres masculinity as an explanatory and potentially pathologizing discourse for understanding their experiences of loneliness. Our analysis of male students’ autobiographical loneliness narratives at university highlights a range of other factors shaping their experiences of isolation at university, such as transitioning to the university environment and navigating a range of ways to be social.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"505 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43335959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Pollitt, Emily Gray, M. Blaise, J. Ullman, Emma Fishwick
{"title":"Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research","authors":"J. Pollitt, Emily Gray, M. Blaise, J. Ullman, Emma Fishwick","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2213727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2213727","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Presenting research findings outside of the form of a traditional research report requires different modes of making and communicating. This paper offers an account of how The #FEAS Report, a satirical news video, was made to communicate the findings from interviews and a survey as part of the mixed-methods study, Sexism, Higher Education, and COVID-19: The Australian Perspective to a wider public. Three creative tactics for research communication were used: DIY aesthetics, humour, and situated bodies. These communication tactics enabled the researchers to think differently about what research findings mean, and how to articulate them in ways that are intelligible. The paper shows how these tactics worked to bring findings to audiences beyond the academy and ask audiences within the academy to think differently about research reporting and knowledge communication. The paper considers how performing research in this way generates different conversations that compliment those started by more common ways of presenting research findings, and most importantly, how crucial it is for feminist researchers to make space for the creative within contemporary higher education.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"487 - 504"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59947621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affected by STEM? Young girls negotiating STEM presents and futures in a Danish school","authors":"Jette Sandager, Signe Ravn","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2206841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2206841","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how Danish school girls affectively engage with and relate to STEM subjects, and what draws the girls to STEM subjects and pushes them away, respectively. We draw on Ahmed’s work to shed light on the ‘sticky’ affects that become attached to STEM subjects as well as student subjects in constituting these as affectively (un)attractive for girls. We explore the discourses on STEM subjects that circulate amongst the students before considering the affects that these discourses generate in and amongst the students, and which roles these affective reactions play in how the girls engage with and relate to STEM. Our analysis evolves around three affective tensions in the data and shows that positive affects are felt by and attached to students with STEM interests and skills, and that students negotiate different kinds of (dis-)comfort when relating to their engagement with STEM in the present and in the future.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"454 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43779074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Whitney Toledo, Maureen A. Flint, Caroline N. Sharkey, Sarah McCollum, Brittney Ferrari, Oluwayomi K. Paseda, Adrienne Cottrell-Yongye, Nia Mitchell
{"title":"Building community through feminist collectivity: being and becoming women in academia","authors":"Whitney Toledo, Maureen A. Flint, Caroline N. Sharkey, Sarah McCollum, Brittney Ferrari, Oluwayomi K. Paseda, Adrienne Cottrell-Yongye, Nia Mitchell","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2193208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2193208","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores women’s experiences in academia through collective biography from a feminist, transdisciplinary, intersectional frame. Crosscutting disciplines, classifications, and subject positions, we use dialogue to explore the nuances of what it is to be a woman in academia, and the experiences of building and developing community as women. We draw on data from a fall 2020 focus group where we each were part of a course in designing qualitative inquiry, as well as our reflections, memos, and conversations in dialogues that followed. These dialogues are accentuated with footnotes that function as a concurrent playlist of research, art, and music reflecting women’s lives and experiences. We use poetic transcription and audio poetry to offer the texture of our experiences, offering both methodological and empirical implications for studying and researching women’s experiences in academia.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"365 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45967052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I’d be in my school uniform’: the informal curriculum of street harassment","authors":"B. Fileborn, J. Hardley","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2193206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2193206","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A growing body of literature has documented the pervasive occurrence of harassment in schools, and street-based harassment. However, to date there has been little attention to street-based harassment occurring in school-related contexts, such as walking to and from school in uniform. In this article, we aim to address this gap by exploring findings from 47 qualitative interviews with individuals who have experienced street and public harassment in Australia. Street harassment was commonly encountered by participants while they were in their school uniform, and beginning high school was often associated with the onset or increased intensity of street harassment. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of disciplinary power and feminist theorisation on embodiment, we argue that street harassment – and school responses to this harassment – functioned as an ‘informal curriculum’ that normalized the occurrence of harassment and produced young people’s bodies as sites of risk that required surveillance, control, and careful management through engagement in safety work.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"330 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45222878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Haydari, Onur Sesigür, Ayça Ulutaş, Begüm Irmak
{"title":"Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy","authors":"N. Haydari, Onur Sesigür, Ayça Ulutaş, Begüm Irmak","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2194888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2194888","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses the possibilities of sound and sonic thinking as feminist pedagogical tools for self-reflexivity, reimagining, and communal awareness. The collaborative reflections of the facilitators of and two participants in the Gender and Sound course that took place within the body of Bilimler Köyü – an alternative educational initiative with a focus on transdisciplinary, collaborative, and ecologic learning – theoretically argue that sonic thinking opens space for the questioning of dominant cultural narratives, identities and structures, and for thinking about possible subject positions beyond those which are already established. Therefore sound, as an umbrella term for the auditory, constitutes technologies of the self that might have the ability to reconceptualize the self, agency and resistance.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"421 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42543547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women","authors":"Sajjadllah Alhawsawi, S. Jawhar","doi":"10.1080/09540253.2023.2189917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2189917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Saudi 2030 vision states it is committed to empowering women through education and employment, but the literature scarcely addresses their everyday realities. This paper utilises a critical realist perspective to examine the mechanisms emerging from the interplay of structural and cultural factors that impact women’s empowerment concerning local realities in Saudi Arabia. Situated within a broader study, this research explores the qualitative element of women’s work and education experiences by analysing policy documents and semi-structured interviews. The findings indicate that structure and culture have a diverse impact on education and employment, which may ultimately lead to disempowerment.","PeriodicalId":12486,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"401 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45717288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}