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teaching gender respect
What schools should do now to empower their non-binary students
The decision this week by the Federal government to pull the Religious Discrimination Bill illustrates that in the current climate it is not actually possible to get such legislation through parliament. I assumed the Bill might at least make it to the Senate. As far as the Morrison government is concerned, I wonder if it’s …
Do elite private boys’ school alumni have justice politics?
Featured Symposium at AARE 2021: Elite private boys’ schooling, feminism and gender justice: reimagining research in a post …
Six things schools need to do now to stop gendered violence
Wesley College refers sexual assault and harassment complaints to police (ABC News, March 2021) Abuse Scandal Shocks St …
My immediate reaction was one of stunned disbelief and shock
Australia’s leading expert in visual methods and learning design wonders if learning designers actually had any hand in the creation of the Good Society resources. Like many members of the public my first encounter with The Good Society Resources was through social media posts and the evening television news. This was designed to be the …
If you want gender justice, should you ban private boys’ schools?
The “offensive and misogynistic behaviour” of elite private school boys that routinely erupts into the public consciousness is not an aberration. It is a byproduct of the heterosexist ‘machinery’ that organises relational life within these schools (Variyan & Wilkinson, under review). There is strong evidence that young female teachers are being responsibilised for boys sexually …
Gender respect: how can we better engage boys and men?
It is September 2016 and I have been invited to speak on a panel with Rosie Batty, former Australian of the Year. We are speaking about the role of education in preventing violence against women and children. The conference title is pertinent: Prevalent and Preventable. The panel is mostly education leaders. One by one, they …