Research Catalog

Title

Schooling, diaspora, and gender : being feminist and being different / Georgina Tsolidis.

Author

Tsolidis, Georgina.

Publication

Buckingham ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xii, 145 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The dichotomy between equality and difference is a central issue in both feminist and education debates. Georgina Tsolidis examines this dichotomy with particular reference to gender, ethnicity and schooling and argues that in the context of reformist education policies targeting gender equity and the affirmation of cultural difference, the schooling experiences of ethnic minority girls provide insights into ways of challenging this dichotomy. School-based case studies challenge the predominant view, that these girls are victims of a culture clash which establishes a 'minority as backward, majority as enlightened' binary. The book concludes by exploring the practical implications with regard to both curriculum and pedagogy."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Feminist educational thinking

Uniform Title

Feminist educational thinking

Subject

• Minority women > Education > Australia
• Women > Education > Australia
• Feminism and education > Australia
• Feminism and education
• Minority women > Education
• Women > Education
• Feminismus
• Mädchenbildung
• Nationale Minderheit
• Minderheden
• Vrouwen
• Onderwijs
• Australia
• Australien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-143) and index.

Contents

1 Voicing difference 1 -- 2 Ethnicity as constructed difference: being an 'ethnic woman' in Australia 12 -- Ethnicity and racialization 15 -- Gender and ethnic boundary making and breaking 21 -- Ethnic minority women: their status in Australia 24 -- Southern European women: representations 28 -- 3 Equality OR difference: representations of ethnic minority girls in education policy 34 -- Difference pronounced deficit 36 -- Invisibility of difference 41 -- Difference and the politics of consultation 42 -- Ethnicity and education: equity or pluralism? 44 -- Defining multicultural education 46 -- Challenging the home versus school binary 48 -- 4 Goint out or staying in: sexuality, schooling and assimilation 54 -- Educating Voula 57 -- Gender relations 60 -- A girl's reputation 63 -- Aspirations, migration and class 71 -- Sameness, difference and racism 74 -- 5 'Good' students and 'good' schooling 78 -- Immigration and education 79 -- Categories and common sense 80 -- 'Good' students 82 -- 'Good' but not 'cool' 85 -- On being 'Asian' 86 -- Good schooling 87 -- Racism 90 -- Educating for the 'new times' 95 -- Educating the 'new ethnicities' 97 -- Combining the fashionable and the academic 99 -- 6 A feminist praxis of difference 102 -- Dismantling the difference in the name of post-structuralism 104 -- Collective experience 106 -- Working with students and the politics of truth 109 -- Naming and thus creating 111 -- 7 Equality AND difference 113 -- Culture and schooling 114 -- Diasporizatio 114 -- Diasporic solutions 115 -- Gendering third spaces 118 -- Women's work in cultural re/production 121.

ISBN

• 0335196306
• 9780335196302
• 0335196314
• 9780335196319

LCCN

00060639

OCLC

• ocm44669817
• 44669817
• SCSB-1206923

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library