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SUMMARY:Teaching ‘like a girl’? Re-conceptualising gender and care in 
 education settings - Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau
DTSTART:20190509T173000Z
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CONTACT:Miriam Berg
DESCRIPTION:Inaugural lecture with Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau.\nOver th
 e past twenty years\, the ‘feminisation’ of teaching and more broadly 
 of education as a whole has become a well-rehearsed theme across parts of 
 the global North and the global South. Drawing on research conducted with 
 school teachers and with students and academics with caring responsibiliti
 es (e.g. Moreau\, 2011\, 2014\, 2016\, 2018)\, I discuss some of the claim
 s which underpin discourses of teaching as ‘feminised’ and the widespr
 ead construction of this feminisation\, in its various meanings\, as a ‘
 problem’. In particular\, I show how\, from early years to higher educat
 ion\, those associated with prevalent cultural constructions of ‘feminin
 ity’ and/or those who do not align with dominant gender norms are subjec
 ted to processes of misrecognition. The lecture takes on Raphael Reed’s 
 invitation ‘to resist the inscriptions that draw us towards some unprobl
 ematised acceptance of the “truth” ’ (1999\, p. 93). Consistent with
  a post-structuralist approach\, I contend that these claims are not innoc
 uous and call for a more critical and nuanced understanding of processes o
 f feminisation so that rhetorics of gender equality are put into practice.
  
LOCATION:Anglia Ruskin University\, East Road\, Cambridge CB1 1PT
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