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This book has been quite long in the making. In its original format, but with some different chapters, and with the then publisher, it foundered (as did other volumes in the planned series). At the in press stage, when we obviously thought it was going ahead, it was suddenly canned. Quite distraught I closed it away in a desk drawer for a year or so. But then Joy Carp of Kluwer Academic Publishers expressed an interest in it, and we were in business again. Most of the contributors to the original volume have stayed with it, only to be delayed by myself, for a variety of reasons (but see the dedication). I had been writing on Michel Foucault for a number of years but had become concerned about mis-appropriations of his ideas and works in educational literature. I was also concerned about the increasingly intemperate babble in that literature of the notion of postmodernism. Indeed at one major educational conference in North America I listened to a person expounding postmodernism in terms of ‘Destroy, Destroy, Destroy’. Like Michel Foucault I am not quite sure what postmodernism is, but following Mark Poster’s account of poststructuralism - as merely a collective term to catch a number of French thinkers – I thought that what we had to do in education was to look at what particular thinkers had said, and not become involved in vapid discussion at an abstract level on ‘-isms’. Thus the book was conceived.

Education - Philosophy. --- Education --- Poststructuralism --- Postmodernism and education --- Education, Special Topics --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy --- Poststructuralism. --- Postmodernism and education. --- Philosophy. --- Postmodernisme en onderwijs --- Postmodernisme et enseignement --- Poststructuralisme --- Education. --- Modern philosophy. --- Educational sociology. --- Education and sociology. --- Sociology, Educational. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Sociology of Education. --- Education, general. --- Philosophy, modern. --- Education—Philosophy. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Modern philosophy --- Aims and objectives

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The immense changes that the world is undergoing in terms of globalization and migration of peoples have had a profound effect on cultures and identities.  The question is whether this means shifts in religious identities for women and men in different contexts, whether such shifts are seen as beneficial, negative or insufficient, or whether social change actually means new conservatisms or even fundamentalisms.  Surrounding these questions is the role of education is in any change or new contradiction. This unique book enhances an interdisciplinary discourse about the complex intersections between gender, religion and education in the contemporary world.  Literature in the social sciences and humanities have expanded our understanding of women’s involvement in almost every aspect of life, yet the combined religious/educational aspect is still an under-studied and often under-theorized field of research.  How people experience their religious identity in a new context or country is also a theme now needing more complex attention. Questions of the body, visibility and invisibility are receiving new treatments. This book fills these gaps.    The book provides a strong comparative perspective, with 15 countries or contexts represented. The context of education and learning covers schools, higher education, non-formal education, religious institutions, adult literacy, curriculum and textbooks.  Overall, the book reveals a great complexity and often contradiction in modern negotiations of religion and secularism by girls and boys, women and men, and a range of possibilities for change.  It provides a theoretical and practical resource for researchers, religious and educational institutions, policy makers and teachers. .

Freedom of religion. --- Women --- Sexism in religion --- Religious education --- Postmodernism --- Religion --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy & Religion --- Education, Special Topics --- Religion - General --- Religious life --- Sex role. --- Postmodern theology. --- Postmodernism and education. --- Education and postmodernism --- Gender role --- Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Educational sociology. --- Teaching. --- Higher education. --- Church and education. --- Education and sociology. --- Sociology, Educational. --- Religion and Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Higher Education. --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Religion and education. --- Education, Higher. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- International education . --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education and church --- Aims and objectives --- History --- Religion and sociology. --- Religious education of girls.