Refugee women, representation and education : creating a discourse of self-authorship and potential / Melinda McPherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPherson, Melinda, author.

Series:

Routledge research in education ; 127.

Routledge research in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women refugees--Australia--Social conditions.

Women refugees.

Women refugees--Education--Australia.

Women refugees--Education--Government policy--Australia.

Women refugees--Australia--Attitudes.

Agent (Philosophy).

Women refugees--Education.

Government policy.

Social conditions.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

The representation of marginal subjects in policy as a topic of social justice

Interest

Foucault, feminism and challenging marginality

Representations of refugee women in policy and their material "real world" effects

Australian settlement education policy, representations, and material effects for refugee women

The gendered refugee experience and its educational impacts

Contradicting meanings and producing new discourse with refugee women : methodology

Agency in education : the context and backgrounds of nine refugee women

Quality of life and empowerment

Care of the self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415829335

041582933X

OCLC:

890011287