Gender Matters in Schools
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1996
144 pages
978-1-4411-1158-6 (ISBN)
Description
Equal opportunities for girls is the subject of this far-reaching and topical study. The author analyses educational provision in the decades following the passing of the Sex Discrimination Act, and asks whether the school curriculum is male-orientated. Are women still presented as the second sex? Are they, as has been suggested, almost invisible? Is the language of the classroom sexist? Despite many apparent handicaps, however, girls actually achieve more examination passes than boys. There is therefore a problem of squaring up the disadvantages shown up in girls' experiences of schooling and the measurable outcome of that process - a conflict which this engaging text seeks to address.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1158-6 (9781441111586)
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John Darling
Gender Matters in Schools
Book
03/1996
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€48.30
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Series foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A woman's place: the early critics
- 2 Before the Sex Discrimination Act
- 3 Teaching as a female profession
- 4 Teaching and promoted posts
- 5 Pupils and outcomes
- 6 Patterns of subject choice: a local study
- Conclusion
- References
- Name index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- W
- Y
- Z
- Subject index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
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- P
- R
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- T
- V
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