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- catalog abstract ""The 'gender gap' in schooling, as manifested by the current disparity in boys' and girls' achievement at GCSE, continues to create problems for teachers. In this volume a team of contributors considers the gender issues particular to a range of subjects in the secondary curriculum. They discuss effective strategies - supported by their research and practice - and offer some ways forward for teachers."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10607720.
- catalog contributor b10607721.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""The 'gender gap' in schooling, as manifested by the current disparity in boys' and girls' achievement at GCSE, continues to create problems for teachers. In this volume a team of contributors considers the gender issues particular to a range of subjects in the secondary curriculum. They discuss effective strategies - supported by their research and practice - and offer some ways forward for teachers."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Ann Clark and Elaine Millard -- pt. I. The gendered curriculum. 1. Taking risks or playing safe: boys' and girls' talk / Julia Davies. 2. Resistant boys and modern languages: a case of underachievement / Ann Clark. 3. Balancing the books: tackling gender differences in reading / Elaine Millard. 4. Science education for all? Towards more equitable science education / Jon Scaife. 5. Whose turn next? Gender issues in information technology / Clive Opie. 6. Eclipsed by Eton fields? Physical education and equal opportunities / Alan Skelton. 7. Shifting the goalposts: girls, women and soccer / Jerry Wellington. 8. 'That spark from heaven' or 'of the earth': girls and boys and knowing mathematics / Hilary Povey. 9. Action, embodiment and gender in the design and technology classroom / Carolyn Dixon -- pt. II. Gendered choices post-16. 10. The gendered landscape of post-compulsory routes / Lorna Unwin. 11. 'Equal opportunities' within the post-compulsory sector: training for undereducated, unemployed women / Jacky Brine -- pt. III. Gendered schooling and differential achievement. 12. Making sense of the 'gender gap' in examinations at GCSE / David Jesson. 13. Gendered relations beyond the curriculum: peer groups, family and work / Mairtin Mac An Ghaill and Chris Haywood. 14. Gender and underachievement: democratic educational reform through discourse evaluation / John Quicke -- Endnote / Elaine Millard.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415167019".
- catalog identifier "0415167027 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "306.43 21".
- catalog subject "Education, Secondary Curricula Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Education, Secondary Great Britain Curricula.".
- catalog subject "Educational equalization Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and education Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "LC212.93.G7 G46 1998".
- catalog subject "Sex differences in education Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Ann Clark and Elaine Millard -- pt. I. The gendered curriculum. 1. Taking risks or playing safe: boys' and girls' talk / Julia Davies. 2. Resistant boys and modern languages: a case of underachievement / Ann Clark. 3. Balancing the books: tackling gender differences in reading / Elaine Millard. 4. Science education for all? Towards more equitable science education / Jon Scaife. 5. Whose turn next? Gender issues in information technology / Clive Opie. 6. Eclipsed by Eton fields? Physical education and equal opportunities / Alan Skelton. 7. Shifting the goalposts: girls, women and soccer / Jerry Wellington. 8. 'That spark from heaven' or 'of the earth': girls and boys and knowing mathematics / Hilary Povey. 9. Action, embodiment and gender in the design and technology classroom / Carolyn Dixon -- pt. II. Gendered choices post-16. 10. The gendered landscape of post-compulsory routes / Lorna Unwin. 11. 'Equal opportunities' within the post-compulsory sector: training for undereducated, unemployed women / Jacky Brine -- pt. III. Gendered schooling and differential achievement. 12. Making sense of the 'gender gap' in examinations at GCSE / David Jesson. 13. Gendered relations beyond the curriculum: peer groups, family and work / Mairtin Mac An Ghaill and Chris Haywood. 14. Gender and underachievement: democratic educational reform through discourse evaluation / John Quicke -- Endnote / Elaine Millard.".
- catalog title "Gender in the secondary curriculum : balancing the books / edited by Ann Clark and Elaine Millard.".
- catalog type "text".