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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 argues that the belief in freedom of choice and school neutrality espoused by many teachers can become an important factor in the reproduction of gender divisions, and that unless the introduction of the national curriculum is accompanied by systematic efforts to eradicate sexism from the hidden curriculum it will fail in its aim of creating greater equality of educational opportunity among the sexes.

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Author:   Sheila Riddell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781138006362

ISBN 10:   113800636
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   10 June 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Setting the scene: the physical and theoretical context of the study 1 Researching Gender and Curriculum Choice: Theory Methods and Research Role 2 The Physical Location of the Study Part 2 School organisation and the construction of the gendered curriculum 3 The Management and meaning of option choice 4 Teachers’ Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity Part 3 Girls, their families and the construction of femininity 5 Pupils’ Understandings of School Subjects: the Recontextualisation of Gender 6 Pupils’ Expectations of the Future: Radical and Conservative Visions 7 Competing Gender Codes in the Classroom 8 Parents and the Culture of Femininity Part 4 The impact of the national curriculum on the construction of gender divisions 9 The National Curriculum: Solution or blind alley? 10 Gender and the Curriculum: Progressive and conservative elements in the balance. Appendices. References. Index.

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