ABSTRACT
Jane Ronald Martin is an internationally renowned philosopher whose inquiry in and about education has shaken its conceptual foundations, showing them to b deeply and consequentially gendered. For she has theorized a hidden curriculum of gender embedded in the ideal of the educated person and in basic concepts of teaching, schooling and education itself, often assumed to be gender-blind. As remedies, she has proposed a new gender-sensitive educational ideal, re-conceptualized schooling, urged activism for academic transformation and recommended public acknowledgement of multiple educational agency, with a view to preservation of a broadly conceived cultural wealth. Highly technical linguistic debates came to dominate analytic philosophical practice in education. Martin's analyses of curriculum deployed standard philosophical methods and made no mention of women or gender. However, they did lay important conceptual groundwork for the basic research on women and education that she began in 1980 and for which she is now best known.
