Learning and Gender in Everyday Life

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Seven
  In Roundtable Session: Sociology of Education SIG Roundtables: Gender Equity in School and Out-of-School Contexts (Table 13)

Abstract

This paper explores learning in everyday life, beyond schools, colleges, and universities. It conceptualizes this as ‘invisible education’, unrecognized but formative with a powerful impact on formations of gender, class, race, sexuality, and disability. Multiple forms of learning: in communities, activism, nature, arts, volunteering, the home and online offer potential for new forms of power, knowledge, and subjectivity. The paper combines concepts of learning affect (Stewart, (2007) and intra-activity (Barad, 2007) to develop a theoretical perspective. It uses this perspective to analyse data from three different qualitative studies of everyday learning. The paper suggests that although this form of education remains mostly invisible and disregarded it is a rich and important field of enquiry with important consequences for gender equality.

Author

• Jocey Quinn, University of Plymouth
  Presenting Author