Activist Women, Schooling and the Rise of Grassroots Christian Conservatism

Autor/inn/en	Gerrard, Jessica; Proctor, Helen
Titel	Activist Women, Schooling and the Rise of Grassroots Christian Conservatism
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 49 (2022) 5, S.879-895 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gerrard, Jessica)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-021-00461-9
Schlagwörter	Activism; Christianity; Social Sciences; Parent Attitudes; Moral Values; Females; Educational History; Educational Policy; Religious Factors; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Christentum; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Elternverhalten; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Weibliches Geschlecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	This paper argues for the need to better understand the role of mothers and schooling in shaping modern conservative cultural politics. Arguing that 1970s-1980s was a critical period for anti-progressive politics surrounding schooling, the paper examines the activism of Australian Christian morals campaigner Rona Joyner. Joyner's successful provocation of a 1978 governmental ban on social science curriculum materials was a signal event in an international Anglophone reaction against what she and others theorised as dangerously permissive forces in public culture. Pitting 'Christian' parental authority against 'humanist' state overreach in relation to the upbringing of children, Joyner created a detailed vision of the cultural-moral corruption of schools and other social institutions. This paper demonstrates how Joyner represented her labour as a project of both public motherhood and grassroots community activism, and how activist women like Joyner were foundational to the growth of a new contemporary grassroots conservatism expressed as a popular politics of 'the people' against the state. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01