Gender and Education in the ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Scotland: one-day conference: Saturday 30 June 2007
About the conference
The one-day conference Gender and Education in the ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Scotland, sponsored by the Gender and Education Association, offers researchers (and activists) the opportunity to engage with the distinctive dimensions of Scottish education, religions, identities, and cultures in comparative contexts. Following the Act of Union in 1707, Scottish education in ‘old’ Scotland has been widely acclaimed as a democratic and meritocratic system in terms of access to schools and universities, compared, say, with England. Until relatively recently, however, the focus of Scottish educational literature has been largely gender blind and, significantly, the first edited book on gender and education in Scotland was published as late as 1990.
One purpose of the conference, therefore, is to address the relative neglect of theoretical and other studies of gender and education in the historical, sociological and educational literature on Scotland. Another, with the advent of the ‘new’ Scottish Parliament in 1999, is to review current research and activity in this area. Participants across a range of Scottish higher education institutions, teachers’ unions, local educational authorities and postgraduates are therefore particularly welcome. The main substance of the event will be short keynote lectures and presentations of current research by participants, as well as the planning of future collaborations.
The specific aims of the conference are three-fold:
to create a network/foster a community of scholars and activists in Scotland, interested in gender and education;
to review the current research and set a new agenda for gender and education in Scotland;
to generate future collaboration.
Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ. The venue is near to Waverly railway station. Parking is available in the NCP car park nearby.
Conference fee £10 (includes morning and afternoon refreshments but not lunch)
Conference organisers
Dr Helen Corr: University of Strathclyde
Professor Gaby Weiner: University of Edinburgh