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Poststructuralism and Ideas of Gender Meet Student Voice and Power

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What can a poststructural take on “gender” bring to considerations of “Student Voice and Power”? What might poststructuralism and gender add to, and enable us to think, that might not otherwise be self-evident within an Enlightenment construction of Student Voice and Power? What do poststructural ideas of gender, as constitutive of Student Voice and Power, manifest? What more can they do in the field of education?

This entry explores the assertion that poststructural ideas of power and gender can support a re-thinking of the concept of Student Voice and Power in order to problematize some assumptions about taken-for-granted claims of science. These claims can be totalizing. They can suggest a self-evident truth of the possibility of the authentic “student voice” to be made manifest, within the right conditions as long as the student is allowed to be free of power. This entry, therefore, “troubles” an all-too-straightforward reading of one “truth” about Student Voice to...

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    Rebecca Webb

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Webb, R. (2019). Poststructuralism and Ideas of Gender Meet Student Voice and Power. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_26-1

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