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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 …
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 …
Changing from single sex to co-ed can be good if based on educational (not economic) reasons
Single sex versus co-ed schooling is back in the news with the announcement from The Armidale School, a traditional, private, all boy school, that it is turning co-ed. Of course there are many opinions about it, you probably have your own. So, as someone who has written extensively on the issue, here is mine. I’m …