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Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 17)

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0260-4

ISBN: 978-981-19-0259-8

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Mar 25, 2022

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Chapter 1Introduction

Apak, Meral

Pages: 1 –9

[Women’s relation with education has been considered in different levels such as students, teachers, and administrators in academic studies. However, there has been limited research on women in the education system as mothers. Gök (2012) explains the relationship between women and education in...
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Chapter 2Historical, Political and Social Background: ‘The Neoliberal Times’ and Education

Apak, Meral

Pages: 11 –23

[The problem that this book deals with can be conceptualized into two general concepts. On the one hand, the macro issues of the global and national policies and politics of education and the resources allocated to educational needs to be understood. On the other hand, the role of the mother and...
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Chapter 3Unpaid Care Labour, Voluntary Work and Motherhood

Apak, Meral

Pages: 25 –62

[To take a deeper look into the matter, two concept groups will be expanded to theoretically frame the issue of mothers’ involvement in the daily school chores. The first is the unpaid care labour of women and the characteristics of voluntary work and the second is the ideology of motherhood,...
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Chapter 4Forms of Capital and Parental Involvement

Apak, Meral

Pages: 63 –86

[In this chapter I will focus on the concepts of ‘capital’ and ‘power’. For this purpose, the conceptualization of capital in Bourdieu’s writings and power in Foucault’s discussions will be reviewed. To be able to see what classroom mothers are giving to and gaining from the school system the...
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Chapter 5Classroom Mothers: A Reserve Army of Labour Behind the School System

Apak, Meral

Pages: 87 –97

[Educational care work is among the other care work that women perform informally and without any payment. Its being educational makes a certain type of women important to mention, mothers.]
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Chapter 6School as a Territory of Power and Classroom Motherhood at School

Apak, Meral

Pages: 99 –131

[In this chapter, in terms of the overall concerns of the study, the school and the mother’s unpaid labour is situated in the neoliberal context focusing on the tensions and negotiations between the volunteering mothers in the Beehive Primary School and the rest of the actors (the state bodies,...
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Chapter 7Classroom Motherhood as a Power Position

Apak, Meral

Pages: 133 –156

[In the school environment the position of CM presents a power position, and the rest of the mothers in the school are aware of the situation. CMs gain this power by means of a variety of capitals. For example they have the emotional capital which is a variation of social capital; briefly a...
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Chapter 8Classroom Mothers and the Neoliberal Education: A Match or a Mismatch?

Apak, Meral

Pages: 157 –187

[In this section the effect of neoliberal policies and practices of mothers will be discussed with regard to the research question on the role of the mothers in the school system in the neoliberal transformation processes.]

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