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* What does globalization mean for education and training policy?
* What does it mean for women, particularly women of the working classes?
In this wide ranging book, Jacky Brine shows that global changes are gendered, racialized and classed. Rejecting a deterministic reading, the book explores the many conflicting and collaborative interests and the possibilities for opportunity and change as well as resistance: from the regionalized and national state, to training providers, femocrats and feminist educators, and unemployed working class women.
Education and training policy is a key feature of regionalized blocs. The book explores its gendered relationship to social policy and the social exclusion that results from the unequal material and social effects of economic growth - particularly the pathologization of unemployed women. Despite the growth of post-compulsory education and training, the relative and actual position of under-educated working class women changes little. Key to the discussion is the discourse of equality which, contrary to expectations, is seen to marginalize rather than increase women's opportunities.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The unpeopled planet
global regionalization
Gendered, classed and racialized
globalization and neo-colonialism
The regionalized 'state' and working class women
Educating unemployed women
the EU 'state', its discourses and competencies
Education, training and the gender equality discourse of the EU
The 'agency' of the nation state
training policy for British working class women
Marginalizing women's training
Gaps, spaces and complexities
educating feminists
Globalization, education and unemployment
Appendices
References
Index.
Summary
Shows that global changes are gendered, racialized and classed. This book explores the many conflicting and collaborative interests and the possibilities for opportunity and change as well as resistance: from the regionalized and national state, to training providers, femocrats and feminist educators, and unemployed working class women.
