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Still Failing at Fairnessby David Sadker; Karen Zittleman
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 12.99Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute research, Still Failing at Fairness brings the gender issue into focus. The authors provide an in-depth account of how girls' and boys' educations are compromised from elementary school through college, and offer practical advice for teachers and parents who want to make a positive difference. The authors examine today's pressing issues -- the... more...
Teaching and Learningby Marjorie Schiering; Drew Bogner; Jorun Buli-Holmberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2011; US$ 34.99Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and teacher. In Learning and Teaching, the authors offer practical strategies for interactive instruction to facilitate optimum learning. more...
Gender, Policy and Educational Changeby Jane Salisbury; Sheila Riddell
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 64.95This book is an edited collection of chapters that aims to look at the developments that have taken place in recent years in gender policies. more...
Schooling and Social Change 1964-1990by Roy Lowe
Routledge 1997; US$ 54.95This book looks at the ways in which the social and economic changes of modern period have impacted on the education system. It looks at ways schools and universities were moulded by external influences and thus its effect on modern society. more...
Ideology and Curriculumby Michael W. Apple
Routledge 1990; US$ 155.00With the current conservative emphasis on cultural literacy, this revised paperback edition of a path breaking statement serves as a reminder that our educational practices and policies are never neutral. more...
City Literaciesby Eve Gregory; Ann Williams
Routledge 2000; US$ 54.95City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in Spitalfields and The City at the end of the twentieth century. more...
Girl Friendly Schoolingby Judith Whyte; Rosemary Deem; Lesley Kant; Maureen Cruickshank
Routledge 1988; US$ 57.50Asks what makes schooling unfriendly to girls and examines the success or otherwise of interventions intended to bring about change. more...
Working the Ruinsby Elizabeth St Pierre; Wanda Pillow
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95A collection of writings from leading feminist educators discussing use of poststructural theory in their classrooms. Topics include: theory in everyday life, ethnography, writing the body, emotions in the classroom and qualitative research more...
Women's Education in Early Modern Europeby Barbara Whitehead
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 160.00The notion of education as "preparation for one's station in life" is explored in these essays. They look at what constituted education for women in early modern Europe and show the gender-specific nature of teaching. more...
Effective Schooling for the Communityby Tony Townsend
Routledge 1993; US$ 64.95Combines knowledge of school effectiveness and community education to shed new light on the management of schools. Townsend argues for greater community in involvement in schooling as a whole. more...