ISBN:
9780750709996
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Consciousness and Privilege
Parallel Title:
Print version Brody, Celeste Gender Consciousness and Privilege
DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Develops a new framework for working in schools that helps educators make informed decisions about change at individual, classroom, curricular and school levels on behalf of gender equity. Addresses the issue of understanding the impact of education on the two sexes, and looks at responsibility for creating gender-fair environments, organising work and creating environments for learning. The book draws on a two-year study into the role that gender played as three Catholic high schools prepared to move from single sex to coeducation. It does not weigh the advantages of single sex against coeduc
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Studying Gender Consciousness and Privilege; 2 Faculty Constructions of Gender at Xavier Preparatory High School; 3 Three Teachers, Three Classrooms, Three Schools; 4 Gendered Cultures and Students' Lives; 5 Curricular Reform, Classroom Equity: The Case of Mathematics; 6 Action Research and Feminism; 7 Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendix A: Faculty Questionnaire: Xavier High School; Appendix B: Xavier Faculty Follow-Up Questionnaires; Appendix C: Guiding Questions for the Xavier Faculty Focus Groups
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix D: Student SurveysAppendix E: Student Focus Group Topics; References; Notes on the Authors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
