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51. Understanding the Boys

    Issues of Behaviour and Achievement

    By Dr John Head, John Head

    Do you know what makes boys tick? In recent years suicide has drastically escalated among young males and academic underachievement is common, so it is of vital importance that our understanding of the young male psyche is well informed and not merely 'received wisdom'. John Head gets to the heart...

    Published August 18th 1999 by Routledge
52. Counting Girls Out

    By Valerie Walkerdine

    The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered mind. The 'Girls and Mathematics Unit' led by Valerie Walkerdine has, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and...

    Published May 28th 1998 by Routledge
53. School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth

    The Invisible Minority

    By Mary B Harris

    School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth: The Invisible Minority shows teachers, youth advocates, administrators, and academic researchers how to embrace the needs of sexual minority students. Through research and case studies, this book explains the ways in which schools are failing the...

    Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge
54. Answering Back

    Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

    By Jill Blackmore, Jane Kenway, Leonie Rennie, Sue Willis

    Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many...

    Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge
55. The Gender Politics Of Educational Change

    By Amanda Datnow

    Published November 23rd 1997 by Routledge
56. Equity in the Classroom

    Towards Effective Pedagogy for Girls and Boys

    By Caroline V. Gipps

    Edited by Patricia F. Murphy

    Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout schooling and looks critically at a range of interventions in difference contexts and countries, all aimed at enhancing equity in schools and higher...

    Published November 17th 1996 by Routledge
57. Challenging Macho Values

    By JONATHAN Salisbury

    Published January 23rd 1996 by Routledge
58. Education and Gender Equality

    Edited by Julia Wrigley

    Published April 7th 1992 by Routledge
59. Coming Out of the Classroom Closet

    Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers, and Curricula

    By Karen M Harbeck

    This landmark book empowers educators to become visible, positive influences and role models for gay and lesbian students in their classrooms and schools. As most homosexual educators, and even students, remain invisible due to possible hostilities of “coming out,” this eye-opening book...

    Published April 5th 1992 by Routledge
60. Gay and Lesbian Youth

    By Gilbert Herdt

    Here is a pioneering volume that explores adolescent homosexuality around the world. Social scientists examine the personal experiences of gay and lesbian teenagers from culture to culture and address the problems and obstacles these young people face. The changing contexts, values, and goals of...

    Published June 8th 1989 by Routledge