Generating Gender Capital in the Education Process and its Impact on the Functioning of Men and Women

Abstract

Gender is a category more and more frequently encountered in Polish pedagogical research. This paper will present the problem of generating students’ “gender capital” in the educational process and will demonstrate the mechanism of reproduction and its social implications for the functioning of men and women. School is the place where socialisation intensifies the social roles, including the roles stereotypically attributed to women and men. School reinforces the individuals’ sense of belonging to a particular gender, but it can also be a place of negotiating the meaning of gender. The article refers to Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory, in which a school can be described as social field where the reproduction of the social order in terms of gender takes place. Gender roles in the school space are established through the formal and a hidden curriculum, textbooks and teachers’ expectations and behaviour towards male and female students. The author refers to these issues, pointing to major socio-pedagogical studies. Socialisation into “normal” gender roles is treated by the school system as a desirable and positive process, despite the fact that it carries with it negative consequences in the form of discrimination and sexism.

English translation: Anna Moroz-Darska

Modernisation of the journal's operations and translation into the English language of articles published in Ars Educandi in 2012-2017 were financed with funds from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a part of the task Science Promotion Activity (pl. DUN).

The task ‘The implementation of the editorial module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe – a system facilitating the editing and management of the academic journal Ars Educandi‘ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘The creation of a modern online version of the academic journal Ars Educandi through the implementation of the publication module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe and the handling of international indexing databases’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘Preparation of the English language version of the last 6 annual issues (2012-2017) of the academic journal Ars Educandi and their publication online’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.