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Subject(s)

• Sex differences in education [Browse]
• Feminism and education [Browse]
• Sex discrimination in education [Browse]
• Gender identity in education [Browse]

Related name

• Skelton, Christine [Browse]
• Francis, Becky [Browse]
• Smulyan, Lisa [Browse]

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• Reference works [Browse]

Summary note

• "The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education brings together leading scholars on gender and education to provide an up-to-date and broad-ranging guide to the field. It is a comprehensive overview of different theoretical positions on equity issues in schools. The contributions cover all sectors of education from early years to higher education; curriculum subjects; methodological and theoretical perspectives; and gender identities in education. Each chapter reviews, synthesises, and provides a critical interrogation of key contemporary themes in education. This approach ensures that the book will be an indispensable source of reference for a wide range of readers: students, academics and practitioners. The first section of the Handbook, Gender Theory and Methodology, outlines the various (feminist) perspectives on researching and exploring gender and education.^
• The section critiques the notion of gender as a category in educational research and considers recent trends, evident especially in the gender and underachievement debates, to locate gender difference solely within biology. This section provides the broad background upon which the issues and debates in the other sections can be situated. Section two, Gender and Education, considers the differing ways in which gender has been shown to impact upon the opportunities and experiences of pupils/students, teachers, and other adults in the different sectors of education. It also includes a chapter on single-sex schooling. Section three, Gender and School Subjects, comprises chapters that cover gender issues within the teaching and learning of particular school subjects (for example, maths, literacy, and science). It also includes topics such as sex education and assessment.^
• The chapters in section four, Gender, Identity and Educational Sites, address up-to-date issues which have a long history in terms of explorations into gender and educational opportunities. More recent inclusions in the debates, such as disability, sexuality, and masculinities are discussed alongside the more traditional concerns of 'race', social class, and femininities. The final section, Working in Schools and Colleges, illuminates the working lives of teachers and academics. The chapters cover such topics as school culture, career progression and development, and the gendered identities of professionals within educational institutions. The contributors to this book have been selected by the editors as authorities in their specific area of gender and education and are drawn from the international scholarly community."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction / Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, and Lisa Smulyan
• Section 1. Gender theory and methodology
• 1. The nature of gender / Becky Francis
• 2. Understanding men : gender sociology and the new international research on masculinities / R.W. Connell
• 3. Femininities : reclassifying upward mobility and the neo-liberal subject / Valerie Walkerdine and Jessica Ringrose
• 4. Gender, theory and social thought : illuminating moments and critical impasses / Jo-Anne Dillabough
• 5. Gender and methodology / Catherine Marshall and Michelle D. Young
• 6. Out of the ruins : feminist pedagogy in recovery / Gaby Weiner
• 7. Gender, education and development / Elaine Unterhalter
• 8. Gender and movement in social policy / Meg Maguire
• Section 2. Gender and the educational sectors
• 9. Constructing gender in early-years education / Glenda MacNaughton
• 10. Boys and girls in the elementary school / Christine Skelton --^
• 11. Masculinities and femininities and secondary schooling / Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank
• 12. Gender equity in post-secondary education / Carole Leathwood
• 13. Gender and higher education / Sara Delamont
• 14. Single-sex schooling / Diana Leonard
• Section 3. Gender and school subjects
• 15. Nature, neglect and nuance : changing accounts of sex, gender and mathematics / Jo Boaler and Tesha Sengupta-Irving
• 16. Engaging girls in science / Angela Calabrese Barton and Nancy Brickhouse
• 17. Gender and literacy / Bronwyn Davies and Sue Saltmarsh
• 18. 'Sex' education : subjugated discourses and adolescents' voices / Bagele Chilisa
• 19. Gender issues in testing and assessment / Jannette Elwood
• 20. Gender and citizenship / Tuula Gordon
• 21. Gender and modern language education / Linda M. von Hoene
• 22. Gender and technology : what the research tells us / Jo Sanders
• Section 4. Gender, identity and educational sites --^
• 23. Room at the table : racial and gendered realities in the schooling of black children / Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood
• 24. Compounding inequalities : gender and class in education / Diane Reay
• 25. The 'right' way to educate boys : interrogating the politics of boys' education in Australia / Wayne Martino
• 26. Constructing femininity/constructing femininities / Carrie Paechter
• 27. Appropriate behavior? : sexualities, schooling and hetero-gender / David James Mellor and Debbie Epstein
• 28. Achieving equality : disability and gender / Michael L. Wehmeyer and Harilyn Rousso
• 29. Gender voices in the classroom / Madeleine Arnot
• Section 5. Working in schools and colleges
• 30. School culture and gender / Fengshu Liu
• 31. Gendered classroom experiences / Emma Renold
• 32. Women in teaching : participation, power and possibility / Jane Gaskell and Ann L. Mullen
• 33. Constructing teaching identities / Lisa Smulyan --^
• 34. Women working in academe : approach with care / Sandra Acker and Michelle Webber
• 35. Gender and educational management / Charol Shakeshaft.

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Other title(s)

Gender and education

ISBN

• 1412907926
• 9781412907927

LCCN

^^2006922117

OCLC

78785443

RCP

H - S

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