For example, this facilitated the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its political party affiliates, to exert a powerful role in the spread of religious education in both formal and informal education, and on governmental education policy. [...] The influence of education takes place both through the formal curriculum – the knowledge and ideas that students are exposed to in lessons – and the ‘hidden curriculum’, the ‘unspoken or implicit academic, social and cultural messages that are communicated to students while they are in school’ (Glossary of Education Reform, 2015). [...] When the court ruled in the teacher’s favour, Alliance Defending Freedom International countered that the ruling undermines the autonomy of the Church and fails to protect the rights of parents to choose the education of their children (Vargas, 2022). [...] In response, the Jordan Teaching Association (now dissolved) and the Muslim Brotherhood objected to the reform on the grounds of secularisation and Westernisation of the curriculum. [...] 28 Whose hands on our education? Their initiatives illustrate many of the tactics outlined in Chapter 2: creating and weaponising fears around the protection of children and the imposition of ‘foreign’ values, scapegoating and demonisation of LGBTQI+ people, use of misinformation and hyperbole, and cross-national collaboration and coordinated action.
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Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction 7
- 2 Conceptualising organised gender-restrictive activities in education 16
- 3 Access to education: who gets to learn 22
- 4 Curriculum: what students learn 26
- 5 Gendered school practices: protest against change 34
- 6 Resisting gender-restrictive activities in education 40
- 7 Conclusion 46
- Box 1: Russian oligarchs, international anti-rights organisations and think tanks 14
- Box 2: The Pin Parental movement 30
- Box 3: Con Mis Hijos No Te Metas campaigns against gender equality in Peru’s national curriculum 30
- Box 4: Banning LGBTQI+ content from schools in Central Asia 32
- Box 5: Protest against LGBTQI+ inclusive school policies in South Africa 36
- Box 6: Aahung and life skills-based education in Pakistan 42
- Box 7: The Bring Back Our Girls movement 44
- Figure 1: Gender-restrictive actors: commonalities and differences 11
- Figure 2: Objectives, strategies and activities of gender-restrictive actors in education 18
- Table 1. Summary of examples: efforts of gender-restrictive actors to control access to education 25
- Table 2. Summary of examples: gender-restrictive actors influencing what students learn 33
- Table 3. Summary of examples: gender-restrictive actors influencing school practices 39
