Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

by Sheila Riddell (Editor), Jane Salisbury (Editor)

Overview

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 European equality policies?
* How have gender equality policies been experienced by particular groups including pupils from ethnic minority and working-class backgrounds?
This book aims to take an overall look at how significant have been the changes in experiences, aspirations and culture of girls and boys and male and female teachers. It explores how attempts to improve equal opportunities in education have fared and examines the tensions and contradications in recent policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134649280
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	865 KB

About the Author

Jane Salisbury is Lecturer in Education at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Sheila Riddell is Professor of Social Policy at the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Introduction: educational reforms and equal opportunities programmes; Introduction: the reform of education: Gender struggles within education: the historical context; Feminisms in education and the construction of ‘equality’; Educational reforms and equal opportunities: multiple policy agendas in action PART 1 Gender and educational reforms: the UK and European context 1 Gender equality and schooling, education policy-making and feminist research in England and Wales in the 1990s 2 Equal opportunities and educational reform in Scotland: the limits of liberalism 3 Beyond one border: educational reforms and gender equality in Welsh schools 4 Gender, educational reform and equality in Northern Ireland 5 Mainstreaming European ‘equal opportunities’: marginalising UK training for women 6 Gender and national curricula 7 Equity, assessment and gender 8 Gender in the classrooms of more and less ‘effective’ schools 9 All change, no change: gendered regimes in the post-sixteen setting PART 3 Delegation and the new managerialism 10 Gendered governance: education reform and lay involvement in the local management of schools 11 Women head teachers in Northern Ireland 12 Teacher education policy and gender PART 4 Groups at the margins 13 Gender equality, the ‘learning society’ policies and community education 14 Gender and exclusion from school 15 Caring, consuming and choosing: parental choice policy for mothers of children with special educational needs 16 Class, race and collective action Conclusion: gender, policy and educational change

Editorial Reviews

'This book must be read to gather all the complexities and nuances of gender relations in schools brought to light by the varied research. The authors throughout give many indicators for future research, especially the urgent priority for investigating educational processes as well as performance.' - British Educational Research Journal

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