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Gender in Policy and Practice : Perspectives on Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling.
This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling, and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions, including K-12 and higher education, public and private schools, and schools in the US and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Sociology in Education.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; SECTION ONE Introduction and Background; 1. Introduction; 2. What Do We Know about the Effects of Single-Sex Schools in the Private Sector?: Implications for Public Schools; 3. Challenging the System: Assumptions and Data behind the Push for Single-Sex Schooling; 4. The Legality of Single-Sex Education in the United States: Sometimes "Equal" Means "Different"; SECTION TWO Public Single-Sex Schooling in Changing Policy Contexts; 5. The Intersection of Educational Reforms: Single-Gender Academies in a Public Middle School.
- 6. Engendering Public Education: Single-Sex Schooling in Western Canada7. Are Single-Sex Schools Sustainable in the Public Sector?; SECTION THREE The Transition from Single-Sex Education to Coeducation; 8. The Transition to Coeducation at Wheaton College: Conscious Coeducation and Gender Equity in Higher Education; 9. Conservative Intent, Liberating Outcomes: The History of Coordinate Colleges for Women; 10. Gender Integration at Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point; 11. Studying Gender Consciousness in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools.
- SECTION FOUR Single-Sex Schooling and Students' Attitudes and Experiences in School12. Perceptions of a Single-Sex Class Experience: Females and Males See It Differently; 13. Single-Gender or Coeducation for Middle-School Girls: Does It Make a Difference in Math?; 14. Participation in Science Courses in the Final Year of High School in Australia: The Influences of Single-Sex and Coeducational Schools; SECTION FIVE Constructions of Gender in Single-Sex Schooling; 15. Girls in the Company of Girls: Social Relations and Gender Construction in Single-Sex Drama Education.
- 16. Constructions of Masculinity in California's Single-Gender Academies17. Constructions of Gender in Parents' Choice of a Single-Sex School for Their Daughters; Author Biographies; Index.