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Divide and school : gender and class dynamics in comprehensive education / John Abraham.
- Title
- Divide and school : gender and class dynamics in comprehensive education / John Abraham.
- Author
- Abraham, John, 1961-
- Publication
- London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xiv, 162 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school. These include: the differential impact of streaming on middle class and working class pupils; the gender dimensions of deviant pupil's value systems: teachers' sex-stereotyping and ideologies; the construction of subject options; and the sex roles in curriculum texts. He argues that the comprehensive school does not necessarily challenge dominant class and gender divisions in society, and can serve to reproduce them.
- To further the ideals of comprehensive education the author proposes that streaming should be minimized; subject option processes should be intervention and counter-hegemonic; breadth of gender identities amongst the pupil population needs to be better appreciated; teacher trainees should be allowed sufficient time to develop a good awareness of the gender and class divisions in society; anti-sexist pedagogies should be systematically developed. Abraham concludes, however, that recent government reforms in education are more likely to hinder than further these proposals.
- Subject
- Education, Secondary > Social aspects > Great Britain > Case studies
- Sex differences in education > Great Britain > Case studies
- Sex discrimination in education > Great Britain > Case studies
- High school students > Great Britain > Social conditions > Case studies
- Education, Secondary > Social aspects
- High school students > Social conditions
- Sex differences in education
- Sex discrimination in education
- Middenschool
- Scholengemeenschappen
- Voortgezet onderwijs
- Sekseverschillen
- Klassenverhoudingen
- Gesamtschule
- Gesamtschüler
- Geschlechtsunterschied
- Soziale Klasse
- Gesamtschule
- Geschlechtsunterschied
- Soziale Klasse
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Großbritannien
- Sociology
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Comprehensive Education: Past Debates and Future Ideals -- Ch. 2. Sociology of Education and Secondary Schooling -- Ch. 3. Research Methodology and Design -- Ch. 4. Organizational Differentiation and Polarization: Setting, Social Class and Pupil Values -- Ch. 5. Gender, Differentiation and Deviance -- Ch. 6. The Subject-option Process: Pupil Choice in School Knowledge -- Ch. 7. Gendering and Stratification of School Knowledge -- Ch. 8. Teacher Ideology and Sex Roles in Curriculum Texts -- Ch. 9. Conclusions, Implications and Social Change.
- ISBN
- 0750703903
- 9780750703901
- 0750703911
- 9780750703918
- LCCN
- ^^^95003992^
- OCLC
- 32167635
- SCSB-11330399
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library