The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education
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The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education

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The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education

About this book

The 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.

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Yes, you can access The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, Lisa Smulyan, Christine Skelton,Becky Francis,Lisa Smulyan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781412907927
eBook ISBN
9781446206485
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Review Panel
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. Section I: Gender Theory and Methodology
  8. Chapter 1 - The Nature of Gender
  9. Chapter 2 - Understanding Men: Gender Sociology and the New International Research on Masculinities
  10. Chapter 3 - Feminities: Reclassifying Upward Mobility and the Neo-Liberal Subject
  11. Chapter 4 - 'Education Feminism(s)', Gender Theory and Social Thought: Illuminating Movements and Critical Impasses
  12. Chapter 5 - Gender and Methodology
  13. Chapter 6 - Out of the Ruins: Feminist Pedagogy in Recovery
  14. Chapter 7 - Gender, Education and Development
  15. Chapter 8 - Gender and movement in Social Policy
  16. Section II: Gender and the Educational Sectors
  17. Chapter 9 - Constructing Gender in Early-Years Education
  18. Chapter 10 - Boys and Girls in the Elementary School
  19. Chapter 11 - Masculinities and Feminities and Seconday Schooling: The Case for a Postmodern Condition
  20. Chapter 12 - Gender Equity in Post-Secondary Education
  21. Chapter 13 - Gender and Higher Education
  22. Chapter 14 - Single-Sex Schooling
  23. Section III: Gender and School Subjects
  24. Chapter 15 - Nature, Neglect and Nuance: Changing Accounts of Sex, Gender and Mathematics
  25. Chapter 16 - Engaging Girls in Science
  26. Chapter 17 - Gender and Literacy
  27. Chapter 18 - 'Sex' Education: Subjugated Discourses and Adolescents' Voices
  28. Chapter 19 - Gender Issues in Testing and Assessment
  29. Chapter 20 - Gender and Citizenship
  30. Chapter 21 - Gender and Modern Language Education
  31. Chapter 22 - Gender and Technology: What the Research Tells Us
  32. Section IV: Gender, Identity and Educational Sites
  33. Chapter 23 - Room at the Table: Racial and Gendered Realities in the Schooling of Black Children
  34. Chapter 24 - Compounding Inequalities: Gender and Class in Education
  35. Chapter 25 - The 'Right' Way to Educate Boys: Interrogating the Politics of Boys' Education in Australia
  36. Chapter 26 - Constructing Feminity/Constructing Femininities
  37. Chapter 27 - Appropriate Behavior? Sexualities, Schooling and Hetero-gender
  38. Chapter 28 - Achieving Equity: Disability and Gender
  39. Chapter 29 - Gender Voices in the Classroom
  40. Section V: Working in Schools and Colleges
  41. Chapter 30 - School Culture and Gender
  42. Chapter 31 - Gendered Classroom Experiences
  43. Chapter 32 - Women in Teaching: Participation, Power and Possibility
  44. Chapter 33 - Constructing Teaching Identities
  45. Chapter 34 - Women Working in Academe: Approach with Care
  46. Chapter 35 - Gender and Educational Management
  47. Index