Gender and education an encyclopedia /

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מידע ביבליוגרפי
Other Authors / Creators:Bank, Barbara J.
Delamont, Sara, 1947-
Marshall, Catherine, 1946-
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:English
Imprint: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
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גישה מקוונת:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central.
תיאור
סיכום:In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included.The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school. Entries cover such topics as: alternative schools, historically black colleges and universities in the United States, military colleges and academies, private and public single-sex and co-educational schools, literacy, mathematics achievement, women's centers, teacher interactions with girls and boys, affirmative action in U.S. higher education, sororities and fraternities, educator sexual misconduct, expectations of teachers for boys and girls, heterosexism and homophobia, bullying, harassment, and violence among students, salaries of male and female educators, school choice and gender equity, disabled students and gender equity, Title IX and school sports, black feminism, womanism, and queer theory.
ביבליוגרפיה:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780313041969 (online)
9781281111272 (online)
9781849724807 (online)
הערות המחבר:Barbara J. Bank is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia. She has been honored with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, and three awards for outstanding teaching. Her scholarly presentations, books, journal articles, and book chapters are in the areas of social psychology, gender studies, and the sociology of youth and education. She is the co-editor of Gender, Equity, and Schooling: Policy and Practice (1997) and the author of Contradictions in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College (2002).