1st Edition

Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

By Sheila Riddell Copyright 1992
280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils’ decisions on what subject to take are influenced by how they perceive themselves in gender terms, and the curriculum once... Read more

Part I Setting the scene: the physical and theoretical context of the study 1 Researching Gender and Curriculum Choice: Theory Methods and Research Role 2 The Physical Location of the Study Part 2 School organisation and the construction of the gendered curriculum 3 The Management and meaning of option choice 4 Teachers’ Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity Part 3 Girls, their families and the construction of femininity 5 Pupils’ Understandings of School Subjects: the Recontextualisation of Gender 6 Pupils’ Expectations of the Future: Radical and Conservative Visions 7 Competing Gender Codes in the Classroom 8 Parents and the Culture of Femininity Part 4 The impact of the national curriculum on the construction of gender divisions 9 The National Curriculum: Solution or blind alley? 10 Gender and the Curriculum: Progressive and conservative elements in the balance. Appendices. References. Index.

Biography

Sheila Riddell