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.
Author(s): Jane Salisbury
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 344
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 13
List of tables......Page 14
Notes on contributors......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 20
List of abbreviations......Page 21
Introduction: educational reforms and equal opportunities programmes......Page 24
Gender and educational reforms: the UK and European context......Page 40
Gender equality and schooling, education policy-making and feminist research in England and Wales in the 1990s......Page 42
Equal opportunities and educational reform in Scotland: the limits of liberalism......Page 60
Beyond one border: educational reforms and gender equality in Welsh schools......Page 78
Gender, educational reform and equality in Northern Ireland......Page 103
Mainstreaming European 'equal opportunities': marginalising UK training for women......Page 122
Structures and processes in schools and classrooms......Page 136
Gender and national curricula......Page 138
Equity, assessment and gender......Page 157
Gender in the classrooms of more and less 'effective' schools......Page 176
All change, no change: gendered regimes in the post-sixteen setting......Page 192
Delegation and the new managerialism......Page 212
Gendered governance: education reform and lay involvement in the local management of schools......Page 214
Women head teachers in Northern Ireland......Page 231
Teacher education policy and gender......Page 252
Groups at the margins......Page 266
Gender equality, the 'learning society' policies and community education......Page 268
Gender and exclusion from school......Page 280
Caring, consuming and choosing: parental choice policy for mothers of children with special educational needs......Page 296
Class, race and collective action......Page 308
Conclusion: gender, policy and educational change......Page 328
Index......Page 332
