Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum
Author: Sheila Riddell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012
Genre: Education, Secondary
ISBN: 0415683629

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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 subject to take are influenced by how they perceive themselves in gender terms, and the curriculum once chosen reinforces their sense of gender divisions. The author looks at the influences on pupils at this stage in their lives from peers, family and the labour market as well as from teachers. She argues that the belief in freedom of choice and school neutrality espoused by many teachers can become an important factor in the reproduction of gender divisions, and that unless the introduction of the national curriculum is accompanied by systematic efforts to eradicate sexism from the hidden curriculum it will fail in its aim of creating greater equality of educational opportunity among the sexes.

The Politics of Gender and Education

The Politics of Gender and Education
Author: S. Ali
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2003-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230005535

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What are the politics of gender within education? How are the issues of gender being explored in diverse educational settings? Does gender still matter in education? This book draws together the work from an international array of authors working at the cutting edge of gender research in education. From policy issues affecting single mothers to the incorporation of 'Southern learning' into Northern contexts, this collection provides a compelling argument for renewed engagement with gender issues at both macro and micro political levels within the full range of educational contexts - from primary to higher education.

The Gender Politics Of Educational Change

The Gender Politics Of Educational Change
Author: Amanda Datnow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135714797

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What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform? This book explores this timely research question, revealing the everyday struggles that happen between different factions of teachers with different definitions of what school means for students. The focus of this struggle, however, may not be on education, but rather on such underlying issues as gender. Using case studies, the author shows how gender politics can be used by teachers to delay reform.

Gender in the Political Science Classroom

Gender in the Political Science Classroom
Author: Ekaterina M. Levintova
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0253033241

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Gender in the Political Science Classroom looks at the roles gender plays in teaching and learning in the traditionally male-dominated field of political science. The contributors to this collection bring a new perspective to investigations of gender issues in the political behavior literature and feminist pedagogy by uniting them with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume offers a balance between the theoretical and the practical, and includes discussions of issues such as curriculum, class participation, service learning, doctoral dissertations, and professional placements. The contributors reveal the discipline of political science as a source of continuing gender-based inequities, but also as a potential site for transformative pedagogy and partnerships that are mindful of gender. While the contributors focus on the discipline of political science, their findings about gender in higher education are relevant to SoTL practitioners, other social-science disciplines, and the academy at large.

Gender and the Politics of Schooling

Gender and the Politics of Schooling
Author: Madeleine Arnot
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Educational equalization
ISBN: 9781138051072

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Originally published in 1987. The perspectives, research methods and strategies adopted by researchers and teachers to investigate gender and education have been diverse and contradictory. This book provides an overview of developments and analyses the range of policy responses to the issues of sex inequality as well. Divided into six parts, the first indicates the range of feminist theories conceptualizing gender and provides context for the following parts on equality of opportunity; gender, power and schools; and studies on class, race and gender. The last parts explore how education and training provision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were shaped by assumptions about masculinity and femininity; and examine patterns of policy making on equal opportunities at teacher, local and national levels.

Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice

Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice
Author: Marie Carlson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030809021

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This book presents ideas on education, gender and intersectionality through a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological borders. Exploring the diversity of educational settings ranging from early childhood to adult education, it brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss, deconstruct and problematize gender and education in relation to several themes in a comparative, intersectional, local, national, regional and international perspective. Each chapter approaches the topic in an intersectional and/or transnational manner and creates powerful gendered educational knowledge. Questions addressed in the book include: What are the challenges or barriers to gender-equal education? How can we understand the gaps between formal policies and educational practices? The chapters in the book illustrate how gender and education are relevant and needed concepts within the field of transdisciplinary research. The authors hail from a range of countries, such as Croatia, Indonesia, Turkey, UK, as well as the Nordic region, and they critically examine gender and education at all levels and in diverse sectors, and with varied lenses, such as neoliberalism in education, and the inclusion of newcomers and refugees. The work also critically investigates programs and pedagogical approaches, culture and values, knowledge and identity in teacher education. The book further addresses criticisms of Western and Anglophone bias around “white feminism” and the norm of white, male and heterosexual privilege.

The New Politics Of Race And Gender

The New Politics Of Race And Gender
Author: Catherine Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135720185

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Provides an overview of the political historical context of race and gender politics in schools, followed by an in-depth analysis. The chapters include work of scholars and policy analysts on policy and policy implementation at all levels of school politics in the USA, Australia, and Israel.

Doing Sex Education

Doing Sex Education
Author: Bonnie Trudell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351705733

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Originally published in 1993. This book examines how a sexuality curriculum is actually taught to a ninth-grade health class and how it impacts on both the teacher and students. It tackles how sex education should be taught and even whether it should be taught.

Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing

Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing
Author: Denise Taliaferro Baszile
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1498521142

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Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar, text, and/or concept, speaking to how it has both influenced and enriched their work as scholar-activists. Black feminist and womanist theorizing plays a dynamic role in the development of women of color in academia, and gets folded into our thinking and doing as scholar-activists who teach, write, profess, express, organize, engage community, educate, do curriculum theory, heal, and love in the struggle for a more just world.