This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling, and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions, including K-12 and higher education, public and private schools, and schools in the US and beyond. Detailing the educational experiences of both young men and women, this collection examines how schooling shapes-and is shaped by- the social construction of gender in history and in contemporary society.
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Which is better, same-sex or coeducational schooling? The question keeps popping up as politicians, policy-makers, teachers, administrators, and parents debate the merits of different forms of education. If you wonder what the research says about same-sex vs. mixed-sex education, this is the book to read. The scope is wide-ranging, with overviews of past research and legal issues plus fascinating, on-the-ground reports from publicly funded same-sex schools organized in the name of school choice and :school reform; Catholic schools, private universities, and military institutes moving from all-female or all-male to coed; and mixed-sex vs. single-sex math and drama classes.[Continued below].
The research results are clear: the either/or, which is better question is far too simplistic because the dynamics of gender are so complex and contingent. Same-sex and mixed-sex educational arrangements are enormously varied in context, content, and purpose, and they are deeply entwined with the dynamics of socialclass, racialized exclusion, sexuality, age, and culture. Gender in Policy and Practice will take readers to the forefront of contemporary thinking about and experiences of gender in education -- and beyond. It's a terrific, thought-provoking read!.
–Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
This is the right book at the right time: a wonderful selection of articles pulling together current research on single-sex schools. By providing relevant findings on both sides of the issue, the editors have chosen to inform rather than persuade. This book respects the reader, the research, and the fact that there is much yet to learn. Read this important book and draw your own conclusions about the promises and pitfalls of single-sex and coeducation.
–David Sadker, American University, co-author of Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls
The research results are clear: the either/or, which is better question is far too simplistic because the dynamics of gender are so complex and contingent. Same-sex and mixed-sex educational arrangements are enormously varied in context, content, and purpose, and they are deeply entwined with the dynamics of socialclass, racialized exclusion, sexuality, age, and culture. Gender in Policy and Practice will take readers to the forefront of contemporary thinking about and experiences of gender in education -- and beyond. It's a terrific, thought-provoking read!.
–Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
This is the right book at the right time: a wonderful selection of articles pulling together current research on single-sex schools. By providing relevant findings on both sides of the issue, the editors have chosen to inform rather than persuade. This book respects the reader, the research, and the fact that there is much yet to learn. Read this important book and draw your own conclusions about the promises and pitfalls of single-sex and coeducation.
–David Sadker, American University, co-author of Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls
About the Author
Amanda Datnow is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto. Lea Hubbard is Assistant Research Scientist in the Sociology Department at the University of California, San Diego. They are co-authors of the forthcoming Extending Educational Reform (RoutledgeFalmer, 2002).
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This volume on single-sex and coeducational schooling grew out of a special meeting at the annual conference of the Research on Women in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, held at Hofstra University in New York in 1998. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, West Point, United States, Wheaton College, Department of Education, William Smith, American Association of University Women, Educational Foundation, Teachers College Press, American Educational Research Association, Harvard University Press, Supreme Court, African American, Bryn Mawr, Sociology of Education, Northern Ireland, President Emerson, Smith College, Hobart College, Peter Lang, Project Athena, San Francisco, America's Schools, Educational Testing Service, Hamilton College New!
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This volume on single-sex and coeducational schooling grew out of a special meeting at the annual conference of the Research on Women in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, held at Hofstra University in New York in 1998. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
science course participation, first coeducational class, academies pilot program, many male cadets, quantitative ability scores, first female cadets, gender proofing, coeducational schooling, coordinate colleges, first coed class, senior cycle, coeducational classes, coeducational liberal arts college, coeducational schools, becoming coeducational, gender academies, coeducational high schools, admissions brochure, coeducational environment, science participation, separating girls, physical science courses, gender reform, separating students, coed classes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Point, United States, Wheaton College, Department of Education, William Smith, American Association of University Women, Educational Foundation, Teachers College Press, American Educational Research Association, Harvard University Press, Supreme Court, African American, Bryn Mawr, Sociology of Education, Northern Ireland, President Emerson, Smith College, Hobart College, Peter Lang, Project Athena, San Francisco, America's Schools, Educational Testing Service, Hamilton College New!
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- West Point (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second) by Heidi Kimmel on 5 pages
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on 4 pages
- Women and Higher Education in American History by John Faragher on page 154, page 155, and page 171
- Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities by Kathleen Gallagher on page 265, page 278, and Back Matter
- Gender Consciousness and Privilege by Celeste Brody on page 44, page 209, and Back Matter
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