Description
A serious but highly accessible look at recent work on the issues of gender and race. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools raises crucial educational and political issues, paying particular attention to the pupils' experience of school.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part 1 Gender; Chapter 1 Gender implications of children's playground culture, Elizabeth Grugeon; Chapter 2 Sex and the quiet schoolgirl, Julia Stanley; Chapter 3 We're back with Gobbo, Joan Draper; Chapter 4 Humour as resistance, W. S. Dubberley; Chapter 5 Gender imbalances in the primary classroom, Jane French, Peter French; Chapter 6 An evaluation of a study of gender imbalance in primary classrooms, Martyn Hammersley; Part 2 Ethnicity; Chapter 7 Ethnicity and friendship, Martyn Denscombe, Halina Szulc, Caroline Patrick, Ann Wood; Chapter 8 Beyond the white norm, Máirtin Mac an Ghaill; Chapter 9 Genre, ethnocentricity and bilingualism in the English classroom, A. Moore; Chapter 10 School processes — an ethnographic study, Cecile Wright; Chapter 11 Case not proven, Peter Foster;
