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Schooling the ‘other’: The representation of gender and national identities in Pakistani curriculum texts

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Durrani, Naureen·2008·Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Until relatively recently, educational research in developing countries has focused mainly on issues of access for addressing gender inequalities in education. This paper argues that challenging patriarchal relations in schooling and education requires moving beyond access to understanding the ways the curriculum acts as a set of discursive practices which position girls and boys unequally and differently constitute them as gendered and nationalised/ist subjects. Using curriculum texts from Pakistan, the paper explores how gender and national identities intersect in a dynamic way in the processes of schooling. The paper illustrates the ideological power of both curriculum and school experiences in fashioning the reciprocal performance and construction of gender and national identities in Pakistan. It contends that in its current form, education is a means of maintaining, reproducing and reinforcing the gender hierarchies that characterise Pakistan.

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Authors
Durrani, N.
Affiliations
University of Lancashire (GB)
Corresponding author
Durrani, Naureen
Venue
Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
Published
2008-10
Volume
38
Issue
5
Pages
595-610
ISSN
  • 0305-7925 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-3623
OpenAlex
W2023325382
Cited by
99
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
FWCI
6.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by
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  • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (publishedVersion)
  • Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University) (acceptedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Gender, Education, and Development Issues
Keywords
gender identity, national identity, curriculum documents, gendered subjectivity, intersectionality, gender inequality in education, curriculum ideology, othering

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