Dr. Jane Martin
Position
Education Studies subject tutor in the Department of Education, London
Metropolitan University
Qualifications
PhD, Open University, History of Education
MA, Warwick University,
Sociology of Education
BA, (First Class) Open University (History,
Sociology)
Background/Career
Jane Martin is senior lecturer in History of Education at the
Institute of Education, University of London. Between June 2001 and October 2005
she was a senior lecturer in Education Studies at London Metropolitan University
where she taught courses on Feminisms and Education; Gender, Education and
Empire; Research Methods and Women and Education. Prior to this she was a
Sociology lecturer in the School of Social Studies, University College
Northampton, and Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She has researched
and published widely on historical, social and policy issues in education but
with a particular interest in the interlinked inequalities of class and gender.
The relationship between feminist thought and actions, and the question of how
one defines feminism is a central concern. She is interested in biographical
research methods and biographical theory as well as social network analysis.
Publications include Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and
Edwardian England (Leicester University Press, 1999) that won the History
of Education Society Book Prize for 2002 and Women and Education,
1800-1980 (Palgrave, 2004) with Joyce Goodman. Joyce and she co-edited Gender, Colonialism and the Experience of Education: an international
perspective (Woburn Press, 2002), a collection that grew out of a shared
enterprise generated at the annual conference of the History of Education
Society in 1999.
Jane is co-editor of the international journal History of
Education and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Educational Administration and History. She also serves on the executives
of the Gender and Education Association and the UK History of Education Society.
She was the Brian Simon Educational Research Fellow 2004-05 nominated by the
British Educational Research Association for her on-going biographical project
on the British socialist educator activist Mary Bridges Adams (1855-1939).
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Contact details
jane.martin@ioe.ac.uk
School of
Educational Foundations and Policy Studies
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H
OAL
Tel: 020 7612 6414 Fax: 020 7612 6366
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Publications
Books
Martin J (1999) Women and the Politics of Schooling in
Victorian and Edwardian England (Leicester University Press) Winner of the
History of Education Society Book Prize 2002
Martin J (ed.) (2002) Gender, Colonialism and the
Experience of Education: an international perspective, Woburn Press (with
Goodman, J)
Martin J (2004) Women and Education, 1800-1980:
educational change and personal identities, Palgrave (with Goodman,
J)
Refereed Journal Articles
Martin J (September 1991) ‘Hard-headed and large-hearted’: women and the
industrial schools, 1870-1885, History of Education, Vol. 20, No. 3,
187-203
Martin J (September 1993) Women entering the public arena: the female
members of the London School Board, History of Education, Vol. 22, No.
3, 225-40
Martin J (December 1995) ‘Fighting down the idea that the only place for
women was home?: Gender and policy in elementary education, 1870-1904’, History of Education, Vol. 24, No.4, 277-292
Martin J (March 1999) ‘"An awful woman"? The life and work of Mrs Bridges
Adams, 1855-1939’, Women’s History Review, Vol.8, No. 1, 139-161
Martin J (January 2000) ‘Working for the people? Mrs Bridges Adams and the
London School Board, 1897-1904,’ History of Education, Vol. 29, No.1,
49-62
Martin J (June 2000) ‘To "blaise the trail for women to follow along": sex,
gender and the London School Board, 1870-1904,’ Gender and Education,
Vol. 12, No.2, 165-181
Martin J (March 2001) ‘Reflections on writing a biographical account of a
woman educator activist’, History of Education, Vol. 30, No. 2, 163-176
Martin J (2002) ‘The school as a social centre: women and child welfare in
London, 1870-1904’, Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science,
Vol. XXVII, Nos. 1 & 2, 129-162.
Martin J (2003) ‘The hope of biography: the historical recovery of women
educator activists’, History of Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, 163-176.
Martin J (2003) ‘Shena D. Simon and English education policy: inside/out?’, History of Education, Vol. 32, No. 5, 477-84
Martin J (Oct 2004) ‘Mary Bridges Adams and Education Reform, 1890-1920: an
ethics of care?’, Women’s History Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, 467-490
Martin J (2005) ‘Gender, the city and the politics of education: towards a
collective biography of women ‘doing good’ as public moralists in Victorian
London’, Gender and Education, Vol. 17, No. 2, 143-164
Book Chapters
Martin J (1999) ‘Gender in education’ in Grosvenor I. and Matheson D. (Eds.)
More than the 3Rs. An Introduction to the Study of Education (David
Fulton), 103-116
Martin J (2000) ‘Gender, education and the new millennium’ in Cole M (Ed.) Equality and Education: a human rights issue (Routledge/Falmer), 21-38
Martin J (2000) ‘"Women not wanted"?’ The Fight to Secure Political
Representation on Local Education Authorities’, in Goodman J and Harrop S (Eds.) Authoritative Women: Educational Policymaking and Administration in
England, 1800-1954 (Routledge), 78-96
Martin, J (2001) ‘Qualitative Research’ in Harrison, L. (Ed.) Political
Research Methods: An Introduction (Routledge), 123-138 (with Harrison, L.)
Martin J (2004) ‘Gender in education’ in Matheson D. (Ed.) An
Introduction to the Study of Education (David Fulton, 2nd edition), 114-129
Recent Conference Papers
2005
‘Women Politicians and City Schools’, Gender and Education, 5th
International Conference, Cardiff, 29-31 March
‘Transforming Education and Politics? The London Labour Party, the
‘shrieking sisterhood’ and City Schooling’ American Educational Research
Association, Montreal, 11-15 April
2003
‘The hope of biography: the historical recovery of women educator
activists’, American Education Research Association, Chicago, 21st to 25th April
‘Margaret Cole (1893-1980) following the road of educational and social
progress?’, Gender and Education 4th International Conference, Sheffield,
14th-16th April
2002
‘Shena D. Simon and English Education Policy: inside/out?’, keynote address,
joint British History of Education Society Conference Australian and New Zealand
History of Education Society, Swansea, 29 November-1 December
‘An Ethic of Care? Mary Bridges Adams and Education Reform 1890-1920’,
Women’s History Network Conference, Royal Holloway and Bedford College, Egham,
13-15 September
‘Listening to the Voices at the Margins: perspectives on women educator
activists through collective biography’, American Education Research
Association, New Orleans, 1-5 April
2001
‘Jane Chessar: from ‘surplus’ woman to professional educator’, Politics of
Gender and Education International Conference, London, 4-6 April
‘Perspectives on Women and City Politics Through Biographies’, ISCHE XXIII,
Urbanization and Education - the city as light and beacon?, Birmingham, 12-15
July.
