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<p>This article shares findings from a qualitative, empirical study into the curriculum memories of boys from elite private schools in Australia. It explores what these men learnt about girls, women and feminine gender in the school curriculum. It also addresses the capacity of existing curriculum categories to conceptualise the multi-layered and aligned nature of various gendered curriculum addresses to these boys, and the way curriculum may work to imagine and attempt to shape future masculine subjects. Through close engagement with data from interviews with alumni, we propose the concept of “niche curriculum” to describe this phenomenon and explain the resilience of sexism in these schools despite many years of critique. Through this work, we aim to demonstrate how thinking about gender can be re-centred in curriculum scholarship.</p>

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From Richard III to American Psycho, via the locker room: Niche curriculum in elite boys’ schools

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    2025年2月5日

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  • Lucinda McKnight,
  • Elizabeth Little,
  • Claire Charles,
  • George Variyan

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This article shares findings from a qualitative, empirical study into the curriculum memories of boys from elite private schools in Australia. It explores what these men learnt about girls, women and feminine gender in the school curriculum. It also addresses the capacity of existing curriculum categories to conceptualise the multi-layered and aligned nature of various gendered curriculum addresses to these boys, and the way curriculum may work to imagine and attempt to shape future masculine subjects. Through close engagement with data from interviews with alumni, we propose the concept of “niche curriculum” to describe this phenomenon and explain the resilience of sexism in these schools despite many years of critique. Through this work, we aim to demonstrate how thinking about gender can be re-centred in curriculum scholarship.