Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl - A New Materialist Perspective on Gender Inequity in Schools

By exploring the material-discursive production of gender norms in Australian secondary schools, this book offers a novel feminist posthuman new materialist perspective on how schoolgirls are pre-determined within educational space and place.

List of contents

1: Feeling-Thinking-Making More Equitable Lives through Education
2: Affective Pedagogical Intra-Action Making Inequity: An Apparatus
3: Affect: Feeling-Thinking-Making Belonging at School through Joy and Shame
4: Dis/Comforting Schoolgirl Figurations of Belonging
5: Dis/Comforting Subject-Choice: Agency, Anxiety, Affordance
6: Enabling Constraints for Angel-in-the-Making
7: Feeling-Thinking-Making Gendered and Raced School Spaces: The Materials Engineering Classroom and Basketball Court
8: Feeling-Thinking-Making - Joy

About the author

Melissa Joy Wolfe is Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education at Monash University, Australia

Summary

By exploring the material-discursive production of gender norms in Australian secondary schools, this book offers a novel feminist posthuman new materialist perspective on how schoolgirls are pre-determined within educational space and place.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Wolfe, Melissa (Monash University Wolfe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032073705
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3207370-5
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Organization & management of education, Feminism & feminist theory, Secondary Schools, Educational administration and organization, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary