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1. Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

   By Sheila Riddell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils’ decisions on what...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Improving Disabled Students' Learning

   Experiences and Outcomes

   By Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Mick Healey, Alan Hurst, Katie Kelly, Sheila Riddell, Hazel Roberts, Elisabet Weedon

   Series: Improving Learning

   How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current...

   Published May 28th 2009 by Routledge
3. Disabled Students in Higher Education

   Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

   By Sheila Riddell, Teresa Tinklin, Alastair Wilson

   As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask. A highly qualified team of authors have...

   Published June 29th 2005 by Routledge
4. Education, Social Justice and Inter-Agency Working

   Joined Up or Fractured Policy?

   Edited by Sheila Riddell, Lyn Tett

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book explores policy and practice in a range of areas where education and other agencies (health, social and employment services and housing) interact. Its theme, of joined up policy and inter-agency working, is central to all those interested in promoting social justice for adults and...

   Published September 12th 2001 by Routledge
5. Gender, Policy and Educational Change

   Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

   Edited by Sheila Riddell, Jane Salisbury

   Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of marketisation and managerialism. Contributors to this strong collection are key researchers in their fields and seek to address the following questions:...

   Published November 17th 1999 by Routledge