This text sets out to challenge the traditional power basis of the policy decision makers in education. It contests that others who have an equal right to be consulted and have their opinions known have been silenced, declared irrelevant, postponed and otherwise ignored. Policies have thus been formed and implemented without even a cursory feminist critical glance. The chapters in this text illustrate how to incorporate critical and feminist lenses and thus create policies to meet the lived realities, the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. A particular focus is the primary and secondary sectors of education.
Biography
Catherine Marshall is a Professor of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, with expertise in policy formulation and implementation, qualitative inquiry, education careers and gender issues. She is the Past President (1 990-92) of the Politics of Education Association. She was the author (with Fred Wirt and Doug Mitchell) of Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Falmer Press, 1989); The Assistant Principal: Leadership Choices and Challenges (Corwin, 1991 ); The Administrative Career: Problem-solving for Entry, Equity and Endurance (Corwin, 1994); Designing Qualitative Research (Sage, 1 995) and editor of The New Politics of Race and Gender (Falmer Press, 1993).
