The Gender Special Working Group of ISCHE is developing a book publication. If you are interested in contributing to the proposed new volume, edited by Stephanie Spencer and Deirdre Raftery, please send a (500) word abstract to Stephanie Spencer by October 31, 2022 for consideration: [email protected]
Authors do not need to have presented their chapter at ISCHE. However, authors should pay particular attention to the Gender SWG’s primary goals (as outlined in the mission statement below), the developing field of gender methodologies and explain how your research moves current thinking forward. We hope to be able to showcase how gender remains integral through time and space to the history of education both inside and outside the classroom and lecture hall.
Provisional Timetable
Provisional acceptance by December 2023
Book proposal submitted January 2023
Submit manuscripts for peer review by June 30, 2023
Feedback by September 30, 2023
Final manuscript submission by November 30, 2023.
Submit final manuscript to publisher January 2024.
Gender SWG co-convenors
Stephanie Spencer, Deirdre Raftery, Tali Tadmor-Shimony, Kay Whitehead.
Gender SWG Mission Statement
Exploring the significance of gender in histories of education has been an ongoing project in ISCHE. The Gender SWG’s primary goal is to articulate the significance of gender in relation to the dynamics of intersectionality in local, national, regional, transnational and supra-national historical research in education. Thus studies and conceptual approaches that investigate the relationships and entanglements between the different levels is an important dimension of our agenda. Likewise, within this approach to intersectionality the SWG is proposing to extend its remit to include research into ways in which masculinities as well as femininities interact with an array of cultural markers including race, class, age, religion and nationality.
Given that educational networks are one of the oldest forms of global connectedness, we are interested in men and women educators whose lives and work crossed borders as well as networks of correspondence, and exchanges of material goods such as books and pedagogical materials. We include activism within groups and organisations whose work transcended national borders, for example, the United Nations. In that sense we are interested in connections between women educators and international feminist networks and their intersections with men who engaged in international feminist networks.