Admission Policy of Swedish Teacher Education Favouring Men: Discussion in Parliament in 1962

Autor/in	Hedlin, Maria
Titel	Admission Policy of Swedish Teacher Education Favouring Men: Discussion in Parliament in 1962
Quelle	In: Education Inquiry, 3 (2012) 2, S.227-242 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2000-4508
DOI	10.3402/edui.v3i2.22030
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Education; Gender Bias; Males; Educational History; Politics of Education; Admission Criteria; Women Faculty; Masculinity; Femininity; Sex Fairness; Gender Discrimination; Educational Change; Feminism; Sex Role; Norms; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Geschlechterstereotyp; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Männlichkeit; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Sexualaufklärung; Bildungsreform; Feminismus; Geschlechterrolle; Normwert; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Schweden
Abstract	In 1962 the Swedish Parliament decided on a school reform. Meritocracy and equal opportunity were important goals. However, these ideals were not applied to elementary school teacher education, where a sex quota policy favoured male applicants. In the parliamentary debate, a woman member of the Right Wing Party raised objections to the policy. A man representing the Social Democrat government's education politics had to explain why the admission policy that favoured men was not abolished. By evoking historical ideas of women teachers as inferior, and warnings of the feminisation of schools as a great threat, the admission rules were defended. Further, analysis of the debate shows that women were supposed to hold back their individual rights and a woman arguing in favour of a gender-neutral admission policy risked being labelled 'unwomanly'. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01