RT Article
T1 ‘RE/TRS’ is a Girl’s Subject: Talking about Gender and the Discourse of ‘Religion’ in UK Educational Spaces
JF Feminist theology
VO 24
IS 1
SP 69
OP 78
A1 Jasper, Alison
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/177689636X
AB This article addresses what appears to be a retrenchment into narrower forms of identification and an increased suspicion of difference in the context of educational policy in the UK – especially in relation to ‘Religious Education’. The adoption of standardized management protocols – ‘managerialism’ – across most if not all policy contexts including public educational spaces reduces spaces for encountering or addressing genuine difference and for discovering something new and creative. A theory of the ‘feminization of religion’ associated historically with Barbara Welter, provides some useful insights as to why this might be, suggesting that those in British society who would prefer to see greater separation from ‘religion’ in ‘secular’ schools may well also be caught up in forms of gender stereotyping.
K1 Religious Education
K1 Religion
K1 Managerialism
K1 gender stereotyping
K1 Educational Policy
K1 Difference
DO 10.1177/0966735015593862