Position/Status
Emerita Professor in Education
E-mail Address
mma1000@cam.ac.uk
Phone
44 (0)1223-767644
Qualifications
MA (Hons) in Sociology (Edinburgh University)
MA (Cambridge University)
PhD Sociology of Education (Open University)
Honorary Doctorate University of Uppsala Sweden
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing (FRSA)
British Sociological Association
British Educational Research Association
American Educational Research Association
Profile
Madeleine Arnot is a Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies (Education) at Jesus College.
As Visiting Professor she has taught regularly at the University of Porto Portugal and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece and has been Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education Stockholm University (2005). She held the George A Miller Visiting Professorship of the University of Illinois USA (2000). Other appointments include Noted Scholar Faculty of Education University of British Columbia (1993) Visiting Scholar Tromso University Norway (1980); Visiting Scholar invited by Anglo-Israeli Study Group (1991); and Visiting Professor at OISE Canada (1983. She has been consulted on the development of equal opportunities policy in education internationally by the Ministry for the Advancement of Women Luxembourg the Ministry of Education and Science the Ministry of Culture and Education Argentina the Ministry to the Presidency Greece and the EC Project on Teacher Training: Ministry for Equality between the Sexes Portugal. She has advised the Swedish Research Council and the Chinese Advanced Leadership Programme and has been a member of expert research assessment panels on democratic values gender and education for the Swedish Research Council and for the Equality Centre at University College Dublin. She is currently Chair of the Executive Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education a member of the editorial board of International Studies in Sociology of Education and joint editor with C. Colclough of the Routledge series on 'Education Poverty and International Development'.
Her primary interest is in the development of sociology of education and in particular in the role of education in relation to social inequalities and the promotion of social equality and the promotion of democratic citizenship. She is internationally known for her work on socio-cultural reproduction theory her use of Bernstein's theory of pedagogy in relation to gender and education and pupil voice and recent youth research in the Global South.
She began her career as part of the Schooling and Society team at the Open University in l975 (under the name MacDonald) focussing specifically on social class issues. Since the l980s she developed theories of gender codes and schooling focusing on the history of co-education the curriculum family and schooling youth cultures and identities. This work is brought together in her collection Reproducing Gender? Essays on educational theory and feminist politics. She was commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission with Gaby Weiner and Miriam David to assess the national impact of Conservative educational reforms on equal opportunities in schools. In l996-7 she directed an OFSTED commissioned project (with J. Gray M. James and J. Rudduck) reviewing research on gender and educational performance. In 2000 she joined the ESRC/TLRP network on pupil consultation and with Diane Reay researched what pupils say about learning in primary and secondary schools. This project has been written up in various articles and will form the basis of a book Social Inequalities Reformed: consulting pupils about learning (Routledge 2008/9)
In the l990s she researched gender and citizenship issues through an EC funded project on student teachers' political awareness in Greece Spain Portugal and England and Wales. The study led to the publication of a co-edited international collection Challenging Democracy: international perspectives on gender education and citizenship (with Jo Anne Dillabough). She was a member of the Steering Group for the Beyond Access: gender education and development project and the International Steering Group for UNESCO Education for All: Gender Monitoring Project. In 2005 she joined the 'Improving Educational Outcomes for Pro-Poor Development' (DFID funded) project working on Youth Gender and Citizenship study in India Kenya Ghana and Pakistan. She co-edited with Shailaja Fennell Gender Education and Equality in the Global Context: conceptual frameworks and policy perspectives (Routledge 2008) and published Educating the Gendered Citizen: sociological engagements with national and global agendas (Routledge 2009)
In 2004 she established the Research Consortium on the Education for Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Children with the General Teaching Council the National Union of Teachers and the Refugee Council. In 2010 she published with Halleli Pinson and Mano Candappa Education Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child: the politics of compassion and belonging (Palgrave MacMillan) which won a Society for Educational Studies Prize 2011. In 2013 she is currently co-coordinator with Loraine Gelsthorpe the Cambridge Migration Research Network.
She is currently the Chair of the Executive Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and a member of the editorial board of International Studies in Sociology of Education.
Academic Area/Links
- Sociology of Education and Education Policy
- Gender Education and Equality
- Citizenship Education and the Learner Citizen
- Education and Pro-Poor Development
- Migration Diversity and Education
Research Topics
- Gender education and equality
- Gender education poverty and development
- Bernstein's sociology of pedagogy
- Adolescent masculinity and schooling
- Pupil consultation and the social conditions of learning Youth citizenship and citizenship education
- The education of asylum-seeker and refugee children
- Language education social disadvantage of migrant children.
Recent Research Projects
DFID: Gender and Education systematic literature review
Bell Foundation: Language Education and Social Disadvantage: School approaches and community values and their impact on the education of EAL students in England (EALead ). A project in collaboration with M.J.Evans and J. Liu. and Claudia Schneider at ARU
DFID: Youth Gender and Citizenship as part of the Improving Educational Outcomes for Pro-Poor Development 2005-2010 with partners in Ghana Kenya India and Pakistan. Faculty of Education Development Fund: Schooling Security and Belonging: relations between asylum seeker and refugee students 2006 -7 with M. Candappa.
General Teaching Council: The Education of Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children: a study of LEA and school values policies and practices 2003-2005.
ESRC: Pupil Consultation and the Social Conditions of Learning: race class and gender 2000-2002 with Prof. Diane Reay
Course Involvement
- Education Tripos (Sociology of Education)
- MPhil: Educational Research
- M.Phil Politics Democracy and Education (from January 2008)
- PhD supervision
Major Publications
Swartz S. and Arnot M. (eds) (2012)
Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging London: Routledge.
Arnot M. (ed) (2012)
The Sociology of Disability and Inclusive Education: a tribute to Len Barton London: Routledge
Pinson H. Arnot M. and Candappa M. (2010)
Education Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' child: the politics of compassion and belonging London: Routledge.
Arnot M. (2008)
Educating the Gendered Citizen: sociological engagements with national and global agendas London: Routledge.
Fennell S. and Arnot M. (eds) (2008)
Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context: conceptual frameworks and policy perspectives London: Routledge.
Moore M. Arnot M. Beck J. and Daniels H. (eds) (2006)
Knowledge Power and Social Change: applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein London: Routledge.
Arnot M. and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill M (eds) (2006)
Gender and Education Reader London: Routledge.
Arnot M. McIntyre D. Peddar D. and Reay R. (2003)
Consultation in the Classroom: pupil perspectives on teaching and learning Cambridge: Pearson Publishers.
Arnot M. (2002)
Reproducing Gender? Critical essays on educational theory and feminist politics London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Arnot M. and Dillabough J. (eds) (2000)
Challenging Democracy? International perspectives on gender education and citizenship London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Arnot M. David M. and Weiner G. (1999)
Closing the Gender Gap: post-war education and social change Cambridge Polity Press.
Arnot M. and Weiler K. (eds) (l993)
Feminism and Social Justice in Education: international perspectives Lewes Falmer Press.
Policy Briefs
OduroG. Y. and Arnot M. (2010) Sexuality and HIV/Aids Education: Addressing
the Knowledge - Practice Gap amongst Marginalised Ghanaian Youth No.11
Lukalo F.K. and Arnot M. (2010) Schooling All Children: The Policy implications
of Mothers’ Educational Decision-making No. 13
Chege F.Arnot M. and Wainaina P. (2010) Improving Educational Outcomes: Youth as Poverty Expert No.14.
Casely-HayfordL.Arnot M. Dovie D. and Salifu Ed. (2010) The Education-Outcomes Gap for Youth in
Ghana: Addressing Raised Expectations No. 15.
Arnot M. (2010) Promoting Substantive Gender Equality in Education: Youth Citizenship No. 17