Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9781138006362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Sheila Riddell

Opis

This volume uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among 14-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level.

Spis treści

Part I Setting the scene: the physical and theoretical context of the study 1 Researching Gender and Curriculum Choice: Theory Methods and Research Role 2 The Physical Location of the Study Part 2 School organisation and the construction of the gendered curriculum 3 The Management and meaning of option choice 4 Teachers’ Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity Part 3 Girls, their families and the construction of femininity 5 Pupils’ Understandings of School Subjects: the Recontextualisation of Gender 6 Pupils’ Expectations of the Future: Radical and Conservative Visions 7 Competing Gender Codes in the Classroom 8 Parents and the Culture of Femininity Part 4 The impact of the national curriculum on the construction of gender divisions 9 The National Curriculum: Solution or blind alley? 10 Gender and the Curriculum: Progressive and conservative elements in the balance. Appendices. References. Index.

O autorze

Sheila Riddell