Contemporary Research on “Gender and Education”

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  • 「性 (ジエンダー) と教育」研究の現代的課題
  • セイ ジェンダー ト キョウイク ケンキュウ ノ ゲンダイテキ カダイ カク
  • Reviews and Perspectives
  • -かくされた「領域」の持続-

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Schooling, compared with other areas of life such as family, working, politics and so on, is the sphere where the sexual inequality is invisible and “the illusion of equality” is dominant. In the modern society, education is seemed basically “achievement oriented” and meritocratic institution. Pupils and students are evaluated and selected based on their academic-achievement in the educational institutions. Therefore, as for women's opportunities to enter the advanced institutions, it is considered to be opened regardless their gender and they are admitted based on their records and attainment. Women's enrolment into the higher education, though they concentrate upon the junior colleges and are maldistributed to the particular departments, even in the four-year universities is seemed as the result of their own “free” and voluntary choice. But is it really true?<BR>The institution of education in the industrialized society functions as the mechanism of socialization, social selection and distribution. The social expectation of “the sexual asymmetry” and the dynamic process of its internalization into the pupils are hidden in these functions of socialization and selection.<BR>The gender, as an independent variable, does not regulate the educational output directly and overtly. Within the educational institution, ther are different throughputs, and the positive experimental research and analysis about these throughputs has just begun.<BR>From this viewpoint, as the basic work for the future development of researches and analysis, I like to examine (1) the change of perspectives in the research on “education and equality” (2) trace the new trend of researches about the inside process of school to find out the throughputs, and (3) clarify the hidden mechanism of generating the inequality by gender to present the new perspectives of the research on “gender and education.”

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