TY - CHAP
T1 - The Gendered History of Bildung as Concept and Practice
T2 - A Speculative Feminist Analysis
AU - Taylor, Carol
PY - 2019/4/30
Y1 - 2019/4/30
N2 - This chapter uses an affirmative speculative feminist lens to rethink the history, purpose and future promise of Bildung. It uses a concept as method approach to trace the pedagogical life of Bildung. It maps its proliferations in discourse and discusses how it helped shape educational practice, particularly by producing unequal educational opportunities for girls and women. On a broader scale, feminist analysis reveals that Bildung has been instrumental in promoting Western-centric, individualistic, masculinist and colonialist modes of understanding and knowledge making. However, Bildung also possesses promise for feminist educational praxis. Its flexibility and openness as an educational concept means that, in affiliation with feminism, Bildung has the potential to promote more inclusive, socially just educational practices. A feminist Bildung might also have a more expansive educative potential to develop ethical and political forms of citizenship which engage with global, ecological challenges.
AB - This chapter uses an affirmative speculative feminist lens to rethink the history, purpose and future promise of Bildung. It uses a concept as method approach to trace the pedagogical life of Bildung. It maps its proliferations in discourse and discusses how it helped shape educational practice, particularly by producing unequal educational opportunities for girls and women. On a broader scale, feminist analysis reveals that Bildung has been instrumental in promoting Western-centric, individualistic, masculinist and colonialist modes of understanding and knowledge making. However, Bildung also possesses promise for feminist educational praxis. Its flexibility and openness as an educational concept means that, in affiliation with feminism, Bildung has the potential to promote more inclusive, socially just educational practices. A feminist Bildung might also have a more expansive educative potential to develop ethical and political forms of citizenship which engage with global, ecological challenges.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065875781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781351066464
DO - 10.4324/9781351066464
M3 - Chapter or section
SN - 9781138479159
T3 - Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
SP - 11
EP - 23
BT - Gender in Learning and Teaching
A2 - Taylor, Carol A.
A2 - Amade-Escot, Chantal
A2 - Abbas, Andrea
PB - Routledge
ER -
