Medical fetishism in education: gendering the ‘clinical’ metaphor

Teaching is increasingly called upon to become a clinical practice profession, like medicine. The term ‘clinical’ used in common-sense way describe idealized teaching practice, as if universally understood be superior and desirable enact professionalism. Yet there little the literature that mounts feminist critique of cultural politics put work through word education. We ask what it reifies how operates firm up inequalities binaries, especially relation gendered concept ‘mastery’, unquestioning adoption epidemiological-style evidence-based worship masculinist data cults. call for further explore teachers both take resist label.