Contemporary Perspectives on Girls' Educational Achievement
What About the Girls?
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Contemporary Perspectives on Girls' Educational Achievement: What About the Girls? offers fresh insights into girls' perceptions and experiences of educational achievement in the contemporary context.
'What about the boys?' is a common exclamation in debates which centre around young people's educational achievements. But what about the girls? Is their success as simple and straightforward as government produced figures would have us believe it to be? Bringing together the wealth of international research on girls' educational achievement and drawing on insights from over 15 years of the author's own empirical research, this book explores educational achievement as a phenomenon that is affectively and subjectively experienced, which has a much wider field of reference than attainment in tests and examinations. It addresses key issues which are of emerging contemporary relevance ā issues that are new, have been overlooked, or have gained new significance and require fresh exploration today.
Contemporary Perspectives on Girls' Educational Achievement: What About the Girls? is suitable for students and academic researchers from a range of disciplines such as Education, Psychology, Sociology, Cultural and Media Studies, as well as for educational practitioners with an interest in equalities in education.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: What About the Girls?
- 2. What About the Girls?: Girlsā Educational Achievements in the Contemporary Context
- 3. Thinking it Through: Notions of Gender and Achievement
- 4. Growing Up and Getting On: What About Girlsā Educational Achievement as They Move Through Different Ages and Stages in Education?
- 5. Developing Dispositions?: What About Girlsā Experiences of Educational Achievement Over Time?
- 6. Feeling Achievement: What About Girlsā Affective and Subjective Experiences of Educational Achievement?
- 7. International Perspectives: What About Girlsā Educational Achievements Around the Globe?
- 8. Drawing Some Conclusions
- Index