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Transforming ConversationsFeminism and Education in Canada since 1970 |
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An accounting of feminism’s effect on Canadian education policy and practice since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary, post-secondary, and adult education.
In this volume, teachers, professors, and educational administrators - many trailblazers themselves - document the historical experiences and outcomes of feminist action in university faculties of education, departments of educational administration, academic and professional societies, teachers’ unions, and community groups over the past five decades. They begin by exploring liberal feminism as an initial response to the historical context in which female educators spoke up for women’s rights and reshaped formal education systems. The contributors further explore how feminist theory was reconceptualized as women moved into formal leadership roles across education sectors. Last, contributors consider female educators at the intersection of gender and other systems of exclusion, such as race and class, despite ostensibly inclusive feminist theory that continues to be bounded by Western, colonial, neoliberal ideologies.
Transforming Conversations considers the complex effects feminism has had and continues to have on Canadian education, acknowledges voices that have been marginalized, and invites readers to continue a transformative feminist dialogue.
In this volume, teachers, professors, and educational administrators - many trailblazers themselves - document the historical experiences and outcomes of feminist action in university faculties of education, departments of educational administration, academic and professional societies, teachers’ unions, and community groups over the past five decades. They begin by exploring liberal feminism as an initial response to the historical context in which female educators spoke up for women’s rights and reshaped formal education systems. The contributors further explore how feminist theory was reconceptualized as women moved into formal leadership roles across education sectors. Last, contributors consider female educators at the intersection of gender and other systems of exclusion, such as race and class, despite ostensibly inclusive feminist theory that continues to be bounded by Western, colonial, neoliberal ideologies.
Transforming Conversations considers the complex effects feminism has had and continues to have on Canadian education, acknowledges voices that have been marginalized, and invites readers to continue a transformative feminist dialogue.
Details
288 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773553576
June 2018
Formats: Paperback, eBook
“Transforming Conversations is an important and timely contribution that sheds light on several hidden and undervalued perspectives and studies within the field of education in Canada. It is especially relevant given the current volatility of feminism in a global context.” Cecilia Reynolds, Memorial University of Newfoundland
"The strength of Transforming Conversations is its breadth of content, weaving across times and places to bring together a rich conversation on pedagogy, teaching, leadership, union activism, curriculum, collective action, and a multitude of identities that live in and across each of these categories of education. Carefully illustrating the many struggles and triumphs of feminism in education over the last five decades, it points to the continual need to speak out and create new stories." Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation
"The strength of Transforming Conversations is its breadth of content, weaving across times and places to bring together a rich conversation on pedagogy, teaching, leadership, union activism, curriculum, collective action, and a multitude of identities that live in and across each of these categories of education. Carefully illustrating the many struggles and triumphs of feminism in education over the last five decades, it points to the continual need to speak out and create new stories." Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation
Dawn Wallin is a professor in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan.
Janice Wallace is professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.
Janice Wallace is professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.
INTRODUCTION
Transforming Conversations: Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970 / 3
Janice Wallace and Dawn Wallin
PART ONE - DISCOURSES OF TEACHING: SPEAKING UP / 17
Janice Wallace
1 Who Do You Think You Are? Feminist Change in Post-Secondary Education: An Uneven Record / 22
Sharon Anne Cook
2 Feminist Reformers: Creating Pedagogical Change to Curriculum in Toronto Schools through Inclusive Content / 42
Rose Fine-Meyer
3 Feminist Influence on Ontario Schools / 71
Jean Hewitt
PART TWO - DISCOURSES OF LEADERSHIP: SPEAKING OUT / 91
Dawn Wallin
4 Rewriting Sisyphus: The Possibilities of Feminism in Educational Administration / 98
Janice Wallace
5 Moths to the Flame Tend to Get Burned: Life on the Liminal / 120
Dawn Wallin
6 Performing Boundaries: Feminism Entanglements in Educational Administration / 144
Melody Viczko
PART THREE - DISRUPTING DISCOURSES: SPEAKING BACK TO FEMINISM / 165
Janice Wallace
7 Lessons on Dismantling the Master’s House: An Adult Educator’s Reflections on Intersectional Feminism / 171
Evelyn Hamdon
8 Indigenizing My Roots in Feminism / 188
Marlene McKay
9 Visible Minority Teachers in Canada: Decolonizing the Knowledges of Euro-American Hegemony through Feminist Epistemologies and Ontologies / 210
Thashika Pillay
CODA - ROUNDING OUT THE CONVERSATION / 227
Janice Wallace
10 A Critical Feminist Exploration of Arts-Based Education in Canada: Embodied Teaching, Learning, and Research within an Equity Framework / 229
Carol E. Harris
CONCLUSION
Moving On: An Invitation to Continue the Conversation / 259
Dawn Wallin and Janice Wallace
Contributors / 267
Index / 269
Transforming Conversations: Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970 / 3
Janice Wallace and Dawn Wallin
PART ONE - DISCOURSES OF TEACHING: SPEAKING UP / 17
Janice Wallace
1 Who Do You Think You Are? Feminist Change in Post-Secondary Education: An Uneven Record / 22
Sharon Anne Cook
2 Feminist Reformers: Creating Pedagogical Change to Curriculum in Toronto Schools through Inclusive Content / 42
Rose Fine-Meyer
3 Feminist Influence on Ontario Schools / 71
Jean Hewitt
PART TWO - DISCOURSES OF LEADERSHIP: SPEAKING OUT / 91
Dawn Wallin
4 Rewriting Sisyphus: The Possibilities of Feminism in Educational Administration / 98
Janice Wallace
5 Moths to the Flame Tend to Get Burned: Life on the Liminal / 120
Dawn Wallin
6 Performing Boundaries: Feminism Entanglements in Educational Administration / 144
Melody Viczko
PART THREE - DISRUPTING DISCOURSES: SPEAKING BACK TO FEMINISM / 165
Janice Wallace
7 Lessons on Dismantling the Master’s House: An Adult Educator’s Reflections on Intersectional Feminism / 171
Evelyn Hamdon
8 Indigenizing My Roots in Feminism / 188
Marlene McKay
9 Visible Minority Teachers in Canada: Decolonizing the Knowledges of Euro-American Hegemony through Feminist Epistemologies and Ontologies / 210
Thashika Pillay
CODA - ROUNDING OUT THE CONVERSATION / 227
Janice Wallace
10 A Critical Feminist Exploration of Arts-Based Education in Canada: Embodied Teaching, Learning, and Research within an Equity Framework / 229
Carol E. Harris
CONCLUSION
Moving On: An Invitation to Continue the Conversation / 259
Dawn Wallin and Janice Wallace
Contributors / 267
Index / 269
