...liberation implied in such a pedagogy. Women teachers, it is argued, historically have been trapped within a concept of nurturance which held them responsible for the freeing of individuals and therefore for the management of an idealist dream. In Chapter 3, Carmen Luke argues...

...by the students. If she had 'discipline' problems it was because she had failed to love them enough: 'women teachers became caught, trapped, inside a concept...the management of an idealist dream, an impossible fiction' (Walkerdine, 1992: 16). It sounds somewhat ludicrous when caricatured in this way, but this...

...liberation of women. In some ways, it actually served to keep women firmly entrenched as caregivers. Women teachers became caught, trapped inside a concept...the management of an idealist dream, an impossible fiction, (p. 19) She questions here the concept of liberation as freedom from overt coercion. As Michel...

...in primary schools) is vital to the notion of feeling and liberation implied in such as pedagogy.... Women teachers became caught, trapped inside a concept...which held them responsible for the freeing of each individual, and therefore for the management of an idealist dream, an impossible fiction.121 Similarly,...