基本説明
This volume is one of the readers compiled as part of the course "Equality and Difference: Gender Issues in Education" which is one module of the Open University MA in education programme.
Full Description
Throughout its history, education in Britain has been marked by various crucial divisions: gender and class have long been dividing factors, and since the 1960s there has been increasing awareness of the issues of disability and 'race'. This book contains a selection of articles that discuss the history and gendered nature of education policies and the impact of those policies on practice in education in Britain and elsewhere. It presents a range of views and approaches, demonstrating the complexity of the educational experience and the influence of gender, class, 'race' and culture on education. Far from being a radical and liberating experience for many pupils, education emerges for some as restraining - a means of legitimizing dominant ideologies of state and society. The articles - some well-known, others less familiar or specially commissioned - contribute to ongoing debates and afford an examination of the place of education policy in production, reproduction and transformation of the major dimensions of social inequality.
Contents
Part 1 History of education policyaccount, 1800-1914, J. Purvis; education for moral improvement, domesticity and social dimension, 1945-51, D.W. Dean; state policy and ideology in the education of women, 1944-88, R. Deem; makers of men, M. Littlewood; the education policy context, 1976-92, M.E. David; social origins of under-achievement among school-leavers, L. Paterson; the reconstruction of gender in women's colleges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, E. Edwards. Part 2 Equal opportunity policies: a comparison of difference policies, J. Arends and M. Volman; girls' education in the balance, S. Miles and C. Middleton; women, equality and equity in liberal educational policies, 1945-88, S. Middleton; feminism, education and the New Right, M. Arnot; the myth of underachievement, H. Mirza; gendered practice in special educational needs, H. Daniels et al. Part 3 Policy in practice: what professional responsibility means to teachers, P. Broadfoot et al; racialized and gendered discourses in teacher education, I. Siraj-Blatchford; feminist change in a patriarchal organization, S. Halford; unholy alliances - the recent policies of sex education, R. Thomson.
