This text examines how the ideals of comprehensive education are articulated, challenged and reproduced through social class and gender divisions within secondary education. Topics such as the attitudes of anti-school pupils and teachers' gender stereotyping are addressed.
Divide And School Summary
Divide And School: Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education by John Abraham Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Reading. IYR 1995
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Comprehensive Education: Past Debates and Future Ideals; Sociology of Education and Secondary Schooling; Research Methodology and Design; Organisational Differentiation and Polarisation: Setting, Social Class and Pupil Values; Gender, Differentiation and Deviance; The Subject-Option Process: Pupil Choice in School Knowledge; Gendering and Stratification of School Knowledge; Teacher Ideology and Sex Roles in Curriculum Texts; Conclusions, Implications and Social Change.
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Divide And School: Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education by John Abraham Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Reading. IYR 1995
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