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A Companion to Research in Teacher EducationPostfeminist Educational Media Panics, Girl Power and the Problem/Promise of ‘Successful Girls’

A Companion to Research in Teacher Education: Postfeminist Educational Media Panics, Girl Power... [In this chapter, we explore debates around ‘failing boys’ in UK schools as a postfeminist educational media panic. First, we explore how neoliberal ‘discourses’ of feminine educational success have influenced what we call a postfeminist media panic that constructs girls as wholly successful in the Global North, through a review of British policy on gender and education and news media reporting. Second, we explore the globalising reach of postfeminist notions of ‘girl power’ and the celebratory promise of how girls’ educational success will enable wider transnational economic revolution, through a consideration of the corporate social media campaign, the ‘Girl Effect’, in the Global South.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Companion to Research in Teacher EducationPostfeminist Educational Media Panics, Girl Power and the Problem/Promise of ‘Successful Girls’

Editors: Peters, Michael A.; Cowie, Bronwen; Menter, Ian
Ringrose, Jessica; Epstein, Debbie
A Companion to Research in Teacher Education — May 3, 2017
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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
ISBN
978-981-10-4073-3
Pages
385 –399
DOI
10.1007/978-981-10-4075-7_26
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Abstract

[In this chapter, we explore debates around ‘failing boys’ in UK schools as a postfeminist educational media panic. First, we explore how neoliberal ‘discourses’ of feminine educational success have influenced what we call a postfeminist media panic that constructs girls as wholly successful in the Global North, through a review of British policy on gender and education and news media reporting. Second, we explore the globalising reach of postfeminist notions of ‘girl power’ and the celebratory promise of how girls’ educational success will enable wider transnational economic revolution, through a consideration of the corporate social media campaign, the ‘Girl Effect’, in the Global South.]

Published: May 3, 2017

Keywords: Gender Stereotyping; Stereotype Threat; News Medium; Moral Panic; Daily Mail

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