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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825938203321

Titolo

Gender consciousness and privilege / / Celeste M. Brody ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Falmer Press, 2000

ISBN

1-135-69903-8

9786610167975

1-135-69904-6

1-283-96283-7

1-280-16797-1

0-203-97891-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrodyCeleste M

Disciplina

306.43

Soggetti

Coeducation - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Studying Gender Consciousness and Privilege; 2 Faculty Constructions of Gender at Xavier Preparatory High School; 3 Three Teachers, Three Classrooms, Three Schools; 4 Gendered Cultures and Students' Lives; 5 Curricular Reform, Classroom Equity: The Case of Mathematics; 6 Action Research and Feminism; 7 Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendix A: Faculty Questionnaire: Xavier High School; Appendix B: Xavier Faculty Follow-Up Questionnaires; Appendix C: Guiding Questions for the Xavier Faculty Focus Groups

Appendix D: Student Surveys Appendix E: Student Focus Group Topics; References; Notes on the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Develops a new framework for working in schools that helps educators make informed decisions about change at individual, classroom, curricular and school levels on behalf of gender equity. Addresses the issue of understanding the impact of education on the two sexes, and looks at responsibility for creating gender-fair environments, organizing work and creating environments for learning. The book draws on a two-year study into the role that gender played as three



Catholic high schools prepared to move from single sex to coeducation. It does not weigh the advantages of single sex against