Education, Gender, and AnxietyTaylor & Francis US, 1995 - 166 pages This interdisciplinary text explores the scope for applying psychoanalytical ideas to gender inequalities that are inherent in the educational system. Although modern education aims to egalitarian and meritocratic, it is still true that in most cases it does not improve the life chances of girls to the extent that it ought to, or does for boys. Based on literature gathered from North America, Europe and Britain, this text argues for an 'object relations' approach when analysing gender differences in subject choice and polarisation in reading, writing and drawing, and stresses the need to pay close attention to the unconscious processes which school settings mobilise. Analysing the concept of 'in Loco Parentis', it presents parenting as the emotional substructure of education, and suggests challenging areas for future empirical work. |
Contents
The Unconscious Curriculum | 1 |
Themes and Perspectives and Object Relations | 17 |
Driving Forces | 32 |
Being Emotionally In Loco Parentis | 52 |
The Unconscious Meanings of Reading | 73 |
Curricula and Transitional Objects | 91 |
Male Wounds and Crossroads | 106 |
Classroom Interaction Gender and Basic Assumptions | 122 |
Fears Fantasies and Divisions in SingleSex Schools | 129 |
Gender Divisions in Future | 143 |
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