Markets and Misogyny: Educational Research on Educational Choice

Autor/in	Power, Sally
Titel	Markets and Misogyny: Educational Research on Educational Choice
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 54 (2006) 2, S.175-188 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8527.2006.00340.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Research; School Choice; Mothers; Equal Education; Educational Policy; Media Research; Middle Class; School Culture; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Mother; Mutter; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Medienforschung; Mittelschicht; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This paper has arisen from a concern that much recent policy-related research on markets displays misogynistic tendencies. In both the media and academic accounts it would appear as though the blame for social and educational inequalities can now be laid at the door of women--particularly middle-class mothers. Through examining competing perspectives on how we might understand this attribution of blame, this paper argues that their guilt is best explained not through changes in behaviour but through the conjuncture of shifts in education policy and related research. These shifts have turned the attention of research away from the public domain of the state and the organisational and cultural attributes of schools to focus on the private domain of domestic decision-making. But the representations of these public and private domains are underpinned by unexamined gendered and ideological subtexts which have limited our powers of description and explanation. The paper concludes by suggesting strategies through which we might both address the tacit misogyny in research on markets and develop more sophisticated accounts of contemporary changes. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10