This collection, written by researchers in the field, looks at how gender issues have affected educational policy in recent years. It explores how attempts to improve equal opportunities in education have fared and examines the tensions and contradictions in recent policies. The book is aimed at students on masters courses in education, and undergraduates on social policy and sociology courses.
This collection, written by researchers in the field, looks at how gender issues have affected educational policy in recent years. It explores how att...
Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of marketisation and managerialism. Contributors to this strong collection are key researchers in their fields and seek to address the following questions: * What patterns are discernible in the educational attainment of girls and boys over the past two decades? * To what extent are changes attributable to gender equality policies? * What form have gender equality policies taken in different parts of the UK? * What has been the impact of...
Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of mar...
This book explores policy and practice in a range of areas where education and other agencies (health, social and employment services and housing) interact. Its theme, of joined up policy and inter-agency working, is central to all those interested in promoting social justice for adults and children experiencing the effects of exclusion.
This book explores policy and practice in a range of areas where education and other agencies (health, social and employment services and housing) int...
Here highly qualified authors analyse the participation and experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period by comparing the responses of eight universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice with student case studies.
Here highly qualified authors analyse the participation and experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period by comparing t...
As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask.
A highly qualified team of authors have closely analyzed rates of participation and the experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period. They compare the responses of eight different universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice, contrasting their social profiles, academic missions, support...
As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raise...
There is a growing concern about the social exclusion of a range of minority groups, including people with learning difficulties. Lifelong learning is seen as one of the central means of challenging the exclusion of this group, but also of enhancing their economic status. This book demonstrates that policy based on human capital premises has produced forms of lifelong learning which exacerbate the marginalisation of people with learning difficulties.The Learning Society and people with learning difficulties: reviews the range of policy fields which increasingly intervene in the lifelong...
There is a growing concern about the social exclusion of a range of minority groups, including people with learning difficulties. Lifelong learning is...
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...
This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourt...
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.
This volume uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among 14-yea...
"This study of higher education policy across Scotland and the rest of the UK reveals some uncomfortable truths. The rapid growth of the higher education across the UK has led to the inclusion of more students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, but institutional hierarchies have remained intact. Despite political rhetoric surrounding free higher education in Scotland, the system has failed to produce more egalitarian outcomes compared with the rest of the UK. However, the policy has become very difficult to challenge and is likely to survive for some time. Universities in Scotland have...
"This study of higher education policy across Scotland and the rest of the UK reveals some uncomfortable truths. The rapid growth of the higher educat...
