Madeleine Arnot
Madeleine Arnot is Fellow at Jesus College and Professor of Sociology of Education based in the Education, Equality and Development group and the Centre for Education and International Development in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge, she was a leading member of the Open University sociology of education team. She has published extensively on a broad range of issues relating to education, democracy and social justice: social and cultural reproduction, gender education, citizenship education and recently on the education of asylum-seeking and refugee children in the UK. She was a member of the International Steering Group for UNESCO Education for All: Gender Monitoring Project, an expert consultant for the Council of Europe, and has advised a number of overseas governments and local authorities on equality policies. In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Uppsala University for her work on gender, democracy and education; she is an elected member of the Academy of Social Sciences; she continues to be Visiting Professor at the Universities of Porto, and the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, is an executive member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing (FRSA) and will be Editor in Chief from November 2009 of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Routledge have published many of Madeleine’s books. Her latest book Educating the Gendered Citizen: Sociological Engagements with National and Global Agendas came out in September 2008, while her next book Social Inequalities (Re)formed: Consulting Pupils About Learning will be published by Routledge in 2009.
Madeleine has written the following books for Routledge:
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Social Inequalities (Re)formed
Consulting Pupils about Learning
The increasing international interest in pupil consultation has been partly fuelled by the encouragement of personalised/individualised learning strategies and the involvement of pupils in their…
read moreAugust 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41198-1 (Routledge)
Social Inequalities (Re)formed
Consulting Pupils about Learning
The increasing international interest in pupil consultation has been partly fuelled by the encouragement of personalised/individualised learning strategies and the involvement of pupils in their…
read moreAugust 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41199-8 (Routledge)
Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty-first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40805-9 (Routledge)
Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty-first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40806-6 (Routledge)
Gender Education & Equality in a Global Context
Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives
The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41944-4 (Routledge)
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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education
This new Reader brings together classic pieces of gender theory, as well as examples of the sophistication of contemporary gender theory and research methodologies in…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34575-0 (Routledge)
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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education
This new Reader brings together classic pieces of gender theory, as well as examples of the sophistication of contemporary gender theory and research methodologies in…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34576-7 (Routledge)
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Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform
Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37914-4 (Routledge)
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Reproducing Gender
Critical Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politics
Reproducing Gender charts the development of a theory of gender relations built up over the last twenty years. This theory has been highly influential in… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7507-0899-9 (Routledge)
Reproducing Gender
Critical Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politics
Reproducing Gender charts the development of a theory of gender relations built up over the last twenty years. This theory has been highly influential in… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7507-0898-2 (Routledge)
The publication of Educating the Gendered Citizen: Sociological Engagements with National and Global Agendas has brought together Madeleine’s ground breaking research on gender, education and citizenship. Conducted over a period of 15 years, this research explores how gendered citizens are constructed historically and reproduced in contemporary educational institutions; how feminism uncovers the gender assumptions behind liberal democratic citizenship; how teachers represent female empowerment and how reforms of the school curricula, especially citizenship education are not sufficiently challenging to be able to promote gender equality. Globalisation, individualisation and the revitalisation of human rights are shown to have created new educational conditions and political agendas for those concerned about gender equality.
This is a book for educationalists who wish to engage with the notion of citizenship in the 21st century. It offers the opportunity to explore in depth the purposes of schooling, the different experiences and responses of male and female students to social change, the range of political agendas associated with gender equality and the ways in which education could start to address some of the most controversial aspects of global gender issues.
Madeleine is a leading international figure in the sociology of education. She defines the theoretical boundaries of the sociology of women’s education, the study of gender education and the development of gender and citizenship education. Her scholarship draws upon political economy, theories of cultural and social reproduction, youth identity formation and curriculum analysis. She has been actively engaged with the teaching profession, local and central government and equality agencies in the development and evaluation of equal opportunities reforms, the development of teacher research, and recently global gender education. Working in the UK and mainland Europe, and recently on overseas development projects, she has acquired immense experience of the ways in which gender works through structures, cultures and institutions. Her expertise lies in the development of gender theory through the critical synthesis of ideas as well as empirical research.
She began her career in education as a Ph.D student of Basil Bernstein, researching the relationship between education and social change. Her early theoretical contributions to the study of gender within the framework of Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogy and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction are the concept of gender codes, a theory of class and gender relations and the study of coeducation. She was commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission with Gaby Weiner and Miriam David to evaluate the effects of Conservative reforms on gender in schools. In 1996-7 she directed an OFSTED review of research on gender and education performance with J. Gray, M. James and J. Rudduck. Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change (with M. David and G. Weiner) offered the first national picture of different political agendas, reform strategies and politics within the feminist movement. The mapping of different feminist ‘education feminisms’ was further developed with Kathleen Weiler in Feminism and Social Justice and Education and with Jo-Anne Dillabough in Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship which linked together feminist educational and political theorizations of citizenship. The publication in 2000 of Reproducing Gender? Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politics brought together her seminal papers from this period. Gender and Education in the Routledge series Fundamental Issues in Education will be published in 2010.
Drawing on Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogic voice and pedagogic democratic rights, Madeleine Arnot and Diane Reay’s innovative research into students’ experiences of consultation in primary and secondary school classrooms challenged the ways in which teachers understand student consultation and highlighted the implications for social class, and gender inequalities of personalised learning. Social Inequalities (Re)formed: Consulting Pupils About Learning will be published by Routledge in 2009. Globalisation and education provide the focus of her current work on forced migration and the gendering of youth citizenship. In 2004, she and Halleli Pinson established the Research Consortium on the Education for Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Children with the General Teaching Council, the NUT and the Refugee Council publishing The Education of Asylum-seeker and Refugee Children: LEA Values, Policies and Practices, and developing sociological analyses of the role of compassion in education in the context of immigration control. She is international leader for a qualitative study of the impact of education on youth living in poverty in India, Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan within the framework of a DFID funded project on 'Improving Educational Outcomes for Pro-Poor Development (RECOUP); the anthology Gender Education and Equality in the Global Context: Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives, the special issue of Compare (38,5, 2008) on gendered education and national education and the new Routledge series on Education, Poverty and International Development series contribute to the framing of global gender education agenda.
Madeleine’s publications include: Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context: Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives (Routledge, 2007); Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform : Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein (Routledge 2006); The RoutledgeFalmer Gender and Education Reader (RoutledgeFalmer 2006); Consultation in the Classroom: Developing Dialogue about Teaching and Learning, (Pearson, 2003); Reproducing Gender: Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politics (RoutledgeFalmer 2002); Challenging Democracy? International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship (RoutledgeFalmer 2000); Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Education and Social Change (Polity 1999); Feminism and Social Justice in Education: International Perspectives (Falmer, 1993); Voicing concerns: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Reform (Triangle Books 1992); Gender Under Scrutiny: New Inquiries in Education, (Hutchinson 1987); Gender and the Politics of Schooling (Hutchinson 1987); Race and Gender: Equal Opportunities in Education (Pergamon 1985); The Changing Experience of Women (Robertson 1983); Education and the State Vols 1 and 2, (Falmer Press 1981); Schooling and Capitalism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977).
She is a currently Executive Board member of British Journal of Sociology of Education, a member of the editorial board of International Studies in Sociology of Education and international consultant for Gender and Education.
