Divide And School
Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2017
Book
Hardback
180 pages
978-1-138-16331-7 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-16331-7 (9781138163317)
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03/1995
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Person
John Abraham is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Reading, UK.
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 Comprehensive Education: Past Debates and Future Ideals; Chapter 2 Sociology of Education and Secondary Schooling; Chapter 3 Research Methodology and Design; Chapter 4 Organizational Differentiation and Polarization: Setting, Social Class and Pupil Values; Chapter 5 Gender, Differentiation and Deviance; Chapter 6 The Subject-option Process: Pupil Choice in School Knowledge; Chapter 7 Gendering and Stratification of School Knowledge; Chapter 8 Teacher Ideology and Sex Roles in Curriculum Texts; Chapter 9 Conclusions, Implications and Social Change;