Patriarchal Whiteness in Australian Education Policy; Equality, Equity or Otherwise

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Abstract

Goenpul, Quandamooka scholar, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2015) describes patriarchal whiteness in Australia as “an invisible unnamed organizing principal that surreptitiously shapes social relations and economic development” (p. xxii). This paper draws on a relational literature review that considers how this organizing principal functions in Australian education policy. I explore how a collective of education policy researchers have encountered patriarchal whiteness, bringing in Stein and Andreotti’s (2017) equality, equity and otherwise theoretical frame to broaden the critique and identify ways in which patriarchal whiteness might be disrupted, to bring about remedy, repair and a just education renewal in Australia.

Author

• Tim Delany, University of Melbourne