A01=Jenny Shaw
Author_Jenny Shaw
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choice
coeducational
Coeducational Schooling
defence mechanisms
Defensive Strategy
Devious
divisions
educational psychology
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Gender Divisions
gender inequality research
Independent Schools
Loco Parentis
Male Wound
Menzies Lyth
object
object relations approach
Perfect Girl
psychoanalytic theory
Repressed Libidinal Energy
SATS
school
schools
Single Sex Boarding Schools
Single Sex Education
Single Sex Girls
Single Sex Groupings
Single Sex Schools
single-sex
singlesex
Singlesex Schooling
subject
Subject Choice
Teddy Bear
Teddy Bears
Timeless
transitional
Transitional Objects
unconscious gender dynamics in schools
unconscious processes
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780748401024
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This interdisciplinary text explores the scope for applying psychoanalytical ideas to gender inequalities that are inherent in the educational system. Although modern education aims to egalitarian and meritocratic, it is still true that in most cases it does not improve the life chances of girls to the extent that it ought to, or does for boys. Based on literature gathered from North America, Europe and Britain, this text argues for an 'object relations' approach when analysing gender differences in subject choice and polarisation in reading, writing and drawing, and stresses the need to pay close attention to the unconscious processes which school settings mobilise. Analysing the concept of 'in Loco Parentis', it presents parenting as the emotional substructure of education, and suggests challenging areas for future empirical work.
