ABSTRACT
This text sets out to challenge the traditional power basis of the policy decision makers in education. It contests that others who have an equal right to be consulted and have their opinions known have been silenced, declared irrelevant, postponed and otherwise ignored. Policies have thus been formed and implemented without even a cursory feminist critical glance. The chapters in this text illustrate how to incorporate critical and feminist lenses and thus create policies to meet the lived realities, the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. A particular focus is the primary and secondary sectors of education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|22 pages
Policy Analysis for Postsecondary Education
part 1|74 pages
The Legitimized Formal Policy Arena
chapter Chapter 3|19 pages
Simply Not Good Chaps
part II|60 pages
The Politics of Silence and Ambiguity
chapter Chapter 6|23 pages
Refraining Research, Informing Policy
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Lesbian Existence and the Challenge to Normative Constructions of the Academy *
part III|54 pages
New Politics, New Policy