'England Expects Every Man to do his Duty': The gendering of the citizenship textbook 1940-1966

This article is based on a pilot study investigating the representation of women in a sample of texts for citizenship education in the immediate post-Second World War era in England. The authors argue that existing research into the field of education for citizenship does not engage adequately with...

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Published in:	Oxford review of education 1999-03, Vol.25 (1-2), p.103-123
Main Authors:	Brindle, Patrick, Arnot, Madeleine
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Citizen Role Citizenship Citizenship Education Civic education Content Analysis Education Educational History Educational Ideologies Educational Policy England Females Foreign Countries Gender equality Gender Issues Gender roles Higher Education History History instruction Men Political Culture Political Socialization Polities Sex roles Sex Stereotypes Social Studies Textbook Content Textbook Evaluation Textbooks Women Womens rights
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Summary:	This article is based on a pilot study investigating the representation of women in a sample of texts for citizenship education in the immediate post-Second World War era in England. The authors argue that existing research into the field of education for citizenship does not engage adequately with how the subject is taught in schools, and how citizenship education constructs the polity in line with normative and traditionalist assumptions about the role of women and men in society. By studying the texts of citizenship for the period 1940-66, the authors argue that researchers can, if they deploy a more critically engaged approach to the way in which notions of 'citizenship' and 'polity' are gendered, generate new questions and new understandings of how education for citizenship functions in schools.
ISSN:	0305-4985 1465-3915