Liberal Liability. Understanding Students' Conceptions of Gender Structures.

Autor/inn/en	Murstedt, Linda; Jansson, Maria; Wendt, Maria; Ase, Cecilia
Titel	Liberal Liability. Understanding Students' Conceptions of Gender Structures.
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 13 (2014) 2, S. 63-73Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293
DOI	10.4119/jsse-692
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Gender; Feminismus; Zeitungsartikel; Conceptual Change; Liberalismus; Partei; Hochschulbildung; Politiker; Politikerin; Schweden
Abstract	Research has shown that teaching gender theories tends to be an educational challenge and elicits student resistance. However, little is known about students' learning processes in social science. This study aims to explore these learning processes by drawing on feminist pedagogy and conceptual change theory. The results show that when students are asked to perform analysis from a structural gender perspective, they recurrently introduce other explanatory frameworks based on non-structural understandings. The students' learning processes involve reformulating questions and making interpretations based on liberal understandings of power, freedom of choice and equality. [The authors] argue that this process is due to the hegemonic position of the liberal paradigm as well as to the dominant ideas about science. Clarifying the underlying presumptions of a liberal perspective and a structural perspective may help students to recognise applied premises and enable them to distinguish relevant explanations (Original übernommen).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2015/1