Paradox, partiality and promise : a politics for girls in school mathematics : a thesis submitted to the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

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dc.contributor.authorWalshaw, Margaret Anne
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-19T20:53:49Z
dc.date.available2011-05-19T20:53:49Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the question of girls in school mathematics through gendered subjectivity. Its theoretical and empirical approach provides a different analysis and sketches an alternative politics for girls in mathematics, not only in its vision but also in the level and style of intervention it advocates. Using ideas drawn from poststructuralist theory and linking these ideas to the political agendas of feminism, it examines, in the first place, how the girl became an historical problem for mathematics education. Its point of departure then shifts the focus of the girl away from an epistemological account of identity to one which constitutes the girl within practices and discourses. Following from this, and by describing how gender is enacted around school mathematics, an alternative approach to knowledge of gendered schooling is developed and new spaces are created for political work in the field.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/2372
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectMathematicsen_US
dc.subjectStudy and teachingen_US
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_US
dc.titleParadox, partiality and promise : a politics for girls in school mathematics : a thesis submitted to the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorWalshaw, Margaret Anne
thesis.degree.disciplineMathematics
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
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