{"id":2355,"date":"2016-01-18T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","slug":"feminism-in-the-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/01\/18\/feminism-in-the-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism in the School curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">This week MPs discussed the proposal for feminism to be dropped from the A Level politics curriculum. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/473150\/Politics_GCE_AS_and_A_level.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">draft curriculum from 2015.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201516\/cmhansrd\/cm160111\/debtext\/160111-0003.htm#1601122000001\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">discussion in parliament<\/span><\/a> held on 11<sup>th<\/sup> January from the official Hansard. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In the debate the government minister said: &#8220;We recognise that the work of female political thinkers was not given due weight in the draft content. The final content will set out clearly those female political thinkers whose work should be studied.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/equality-issues\/far-more-needs-be-done-make-women-visible-curriculum-says-tuc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Reaction from TUC<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/add-more-female-thinkers-to-the-politics-a-level-syllabus\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">petition from June Eric-Udorie<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensequality.org.uk\/commsp\/feminism_to_be_reinstated_to_a_level_politics\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Womens Equality Party reaction<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawcettsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Further-Additional-GCSE-and-A-level-Subject-Content-Consultation-Fawcett-Society-Consultation-Response.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Fawcett society reaction.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacquelyng.me\/the-uk-government-is-trying-to-remove-feminism-from-the-a-level-politics-syllabus\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Jacqueline Guderley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> \u2013 cofounder of @stemettes inspiring girls in STENM careers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week MPs discussed the proposal for feminism to be dropped from the A Level politics curriculum. See the draft curriculum from 2015. Read the discussion in parliament held on 11th January from the official Hansard. In the debate the government minister said: &#8220;We recognise that the work of female political thinkers was not given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,15],"tags":[236,52,93,99],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-education","tag-feminism","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}