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There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils, school models that ‘beat the odds’, and the resiliency of low-income families dedicated to the academic success of their children. This book examines the connection between poverty and...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of ‘regulation and resistance’, focusing on some of the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of gender and education today. It underlines the need for educational research to attend to...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book begins with an analysis of the gradual extension of educational opportunities for women since the nineteenth century, with special attention given to the period since 1944. There is careful exploration of the interaction between the family and the school, and an examination of their role...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Schools reflect the society which surrounds them but they must also be agents of change. The last few decades have seen an explosion of research on gender and education and, in this volume the author examines in a rigorous but highly accessible way, new research findings and new strategies for...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Do girls do better in single-sex or co-educational schools? Up to now, discussion has centred on girls’ academic achievements in single or mixed-sex groups, but Pat Mahony’s research clearly demonstrates that this is not the only issue, and that co-education is damaging for girls socially as well...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work....
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Drawing from her in-depth ethnographic study of a London comprehensive school the author shows how gender formation for both girls and boys is mediated by disciplinary control, sexuality and the curriculum. Her findings for girls and boys – with their important emphases – are revealed. So are the...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Mini-set F: Gender re-issues 7 volumes originally published between 1978 and 1992. Most of the volumes concentrate on the schooling of girls, but the differences between the genders are discussed extensively in this important area in the sociology of education....
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
