Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community
Special Issue Guest Editors: Emily F. Henderson & James Burford
Conferences are an important but neglected research area. While they are a ubiquitous feature of academic work and represent a billion-dollar global industry, conferences rarely take centre stage in their own right as objects of […]
When I was 13, I took a train to Birmingham with a friend. The train conductor came to inspect our tickets, before handing them back he lifted up our t-shirts and stamped our belly buttons. He returned to the driver’s cabin, laughing.
This and many other memories of bodily intrusions have been on my mind this […]
Cite Club: Decolonizing ‘place’ in early childhood studies
Feminist Educators Against Sexism (#FEAS) are an Australian-based, international feminist collective committed to developing interventions into sexism in the academy and other educational spaces. One of their most recent interventions is Cite Club, an e-mail group where #FEAS send their works to one another and cite one another […]
Our 2017 conference, hosted by Jayne Osgood and her team at Middlesex University, was a huge success. We are pleased to be able to share this video sharing the highlights from the event.
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Resistance, identities, and reducing pressure: Reflections on GEA Conference 2017
by Nicole Johnson, PhD Student, Open University of Catalonia
After enjoying the keynotes, sessions, and conversations at the 2017 GEA Conference, I found myself reflecting over the past month on the themes that emerged and impacted me. I’ve been sitting on this blog post, pondering, as […]
Picturing Care: Reframing Gender, Race and Educational Justice
Wendy Luttrell, Graduate Center City University of New York
Victoria Restler, Rhode Island College
Everyone knows that schools cannot function and children cannot learn without care. And yet, this topic is marginalized, if not absent from debates about how contemporary educational policies fuel racial and economic inequality. Public discussions […]
We are excited to announce that the GEA Fund is entering its second year in 2017/18. The Fund aims to support our membership to develop networks and undertake small research projects.
The focus of the 2017/18 Fund is to support pilot work (transcription, travel costs, workshops to bring potential collaborators together) that can feed into the […]
Guest post by Victoria Edwards
Generating more energy than the blazing July sun, over 70 young people (age 13-18) streamed in to the Educating Agenda conference, in Cardiff University last week. They came to participate, share, reflect and build the event into a powerful and inspiring call to arms. Joining them in the building, and in purpose, […]
For decades now, there have been sustained calls within the academic field to engage in research that challenges dominant knowledge production processes (Abu-Lughud 1991; Narayan 1993; Smith 2012; Takayama 2011). Given that critical feminist research has had a long-standing goal of challenging the essentialism, power hierarchies, and concepts of difference embedded in the research process, the editors […]
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Decolonizing Gender and Education Research: Exploring the Relationship Between Feminist Research on Education and Decolonizing, Indigenous Knowledges and Cosmologies
Special Issue Guest Editors: Caroline Manion & Payal Shah
Critical scholars across a variety of disciplines and geographic areas express the need to engage in intellectual projects that […]
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