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Overview

Jane Kenway is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research primarily lies within the Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Religious Education and Schools

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jane Kenway include:

  • "The accumulation economy of private schools: extraction, mystification and depletion" (2024), published in Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • "The Covid-19 conjuncture: rearticulating the school/home/work nexus" (2021), published in International Studies in Sociology of Education
  • "Elite universities: Their monstrous promises and promising monsters" (2021), published in Curriculum Inquiry

Other notable works related to the research field, authored by close collaborators, include:

  • "How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting" (2022), British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • "Private schools and tax advantage in England and Wales - the longue duree" (2020), Critical Studies in Education

Jane Kenway frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Critical Studies in Education
  • The Australian Educational Researcher
  • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • Curriculum Inquiry

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Rebecca Boden
  • Malcolm James
  • Adam Howard
  • Debbie Epstein
  • Katie Maher

Best Publications

  • Consuming Children: Education-Entertainment-Advertising

    Jane Kenway;Elizabeth Bullen

  • Answering Back: Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

    Jill Blackmore;Jane Kenway;Leonie Rennie;Sue Willis

  • Factors Influencing the Educational Performance of Males and Females in School and Their Initial Destinations After Leaving School

    Cherry Collins;Jane Kenway;Julie McLeod

  • Masculinity, Violence and Schooling: Challenging "Poisonous Pedagogies.".

    Jane Kenway;Lindsay Fitzclarence

  • Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis

    Jane Kenway;Anna Kraack;Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody

  • Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics

    Michael W. Apple;Jane Kenway;Michael Singh

  • Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and ‘spaces of points of view’: whose reflexivity, which perspective?

    Jane Kenway;Julie McLeod

  • Marketing education in the postmodern age

    Jane Kenway;Chris Bigum;Lindsay Fitzclarence

  • Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’: feminist post‐structuralism, gender reform and educational change

    Jane Kenway;Sue Willis;Jill Blackmore;Leonie Rennie

  • The emotional geographies of education: Beginning a conversation

    Jane Kenway;Deborah Youdell

  • Haunting the Knowledge Economy

    Jane Kenway;Elizabeth Ann Bullen;Johannah Clare Fahey;Simon Marshall Robb

  • Gender Matters in Educational Administration and Policy: A Feminist Introduction

    Jill Blackmore;Jane Kenway

  • Masculinities in Schools: under siege, on the defensive and under reconstruction?

    Jane Kenway

  • Globalizing the Research Imagination

    Jane Kenway;Johannah Clare Fahey

  • 'Creative destruction': knowledge economy policy and the future of the arts and humanities in the academy

    Elizabeth Ann Bullen;Simon Robb;Jane Kenway

  • Place, time and stigmatised youthful identities: bad boys in paradise☆

    Anna Kraack;Jane Kenway

  • Challenging inequality in Australian schools: Gonski and beyond

    Jane Kenway

  • The elite school as ‘cognitive machine’ and ‘social paradise’: Developing transnational capitals for the national ‘field of power’:

    Jane Kenway;Aaron Soon Lee Koh

  • Class Choreographies : Elite Schools and Globalization

    Jane Kenway;Johannah Fahey;Debbie Epstein;Aaron Koh

  • The Information Superhighway and Post-Modernity: The Social Promise and the Social Price

    Jane Kenway

  • Self-representations of International Women Postgraduate Students in the Global University 'Contact Zone'

    Jane Kenway;Elizabeth Ann Bullen

  • ‘Asia as method’ : Chen’s conceptual openings

    Jane Kenway

Frequent Co-Authors

Debbie Epstein
Debbie Epstein University of Roehampton
Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Léonie J. Rennie
Léonie J. Rennie Curtin University
Jill Blackmore
Jill Blackmore Deakin University
Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham

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