Summary |
Over the last three decades feminism has influenced many
philosophers of education. The kind of questions that constitute the contemporary
feminist philosophy of education research agendas are diverse and range from
interests aligned with a variety of fields and theoretical orientations of
feminisms, for example: liberal, poststructural and multicultural. However,
most share an emphasis toward both the intellectual and political dimensions of
a just education. Broad areas of study at the intersections of feminism and
education include; gender, class, race, sexuality, human rights, identity,
subjectivity, the body, sexuality, the family, knowledge and power, with
significant lines if enquiry challenging the foundations of traditional
educational research, policy and practice and its reliance on; an objective
knower, its a-historic presumptions and its exclusion of emotion. Feminist
philosophers of education work across varied educational spaces including;
early childhood, mass education, tertiary, university and vocational education
and informal and community education and address concerns relating to
epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, normativity and methodology. |