Equality Policies in Compulsory School. Ambivalences that Dilute Gender Relations

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Equality Policies in Compulsory School. Ambivalences that Dilute Gender Relations

Abstract

For more than 20 years, an education for gender equality in compulsory school has been called for at the Swiss federal level. Our research (critical discourse analysis of federal and cantonal school policy texts and interviews with the persons in charge of school- and equality policies in seven French-speaking cantons) shows that the implementation of these policies at regional (French-speaking area) and cantonal levels is ambivalent. We attribute this situation to a process of dilution of gender inequalities among other inequalities and relate this process to the changes of framing that affect educational policies.

Keywords

  • equality
  • gender
  • teachers
  • education
  • education policy

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Authors:

Editors:

Brigitte Liebig, René Levy, Birgit Sauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Publisher:

Swiss Sociological Association and Seismo Press, Swiss Journal of Sociology, Vol. 40, Issue 2, July 2014, «Gender Equality Policies in Switzerland», pp. 197-215

Languages:

French

Media Type:

PDF

City:

Zurich

Year:

2014

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Research labels:

Education – vocational training
Work – carrer – professions
Politics

Subjects:

Education Sciences, Sociology

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