Is biology destiny? Are schools shortchanging girls or boys? If so, what can educators do to ensure that both succeed? These are among the questions confronting teachers of students of all ages. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education is a comprehensive anthology that explores the varied terrain of gender landscape-offering a thought-provoking view of the educational paths taken by girls and boys.
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"...this will be an indispensable volume for schools of education and teacher education programs..." (Feminist Academic Press, May 2002)
"...the book does provide a useful analytical framework for discussing gender issues in education." (TCRecord.org, 2/18/03)
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Is biology destiny? Are schools shortchanging girls or boys? If so, what can educators do to ensure that both succeed? These are among the questions confronting teachers of students of all ages. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education is a comprehensive anthology that explores the varied terrain of gender landscape-offering a thought-provoking view of the educational paths taken by girls and boys.
Comprehensive in scope, yet easy to read, this fascinating anthology brings together a wide variety of perspectives from the major camps of the gender debate to illustrate how this issue affects every facet of the educational enterprise. The book includes the most groundbreaking and controversial pieces on gender while examining key developmental, learning, and cultural theories underlying the gender debates. Topics covered include the nature/nurture debate, gender achievement gaps, testing and teaching bias, the cultural context of gender, and sexual harassment.
Featuring a Foreword by Susan Bailey, executive director of Wellesley Centers for Women, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education includes excerpts from controversial articles that sparked debate, such as the AAUW (American Association of University Women) report How Schools Shortchange Girls, Christina Hoff Sommers' The War Against Boys, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice, and William Pollock's Real Boys.
The thirty-one articles and book chapters in this collection represent an extremely wide range of opinions and approaches to the topic of gender equity. Taken together, they dispel any notion of quick fixes or exclusively one-sided disadvantage-but will leave readers with a clearer understanding of the complexities inherent in any discussions of education and gender.
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THE YEAR WAS 1969. I had been teaching part-time at the University of Maryland for several years during the time I worked on my doctorate and shortly after I finished it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chronic bad behavior, coed schools, school social context, indirect bullying, sex equity, coeducational environment, coed classes, mathematics attitudes, woman peril, parental consent laws, coeducational schools, schools shortchange girls, violent boys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, United States, American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Carol Gilligan, American Association of University Women, Miss Davis, Native American, Educational Testing Service, Journal of Educational Psychology, Kegan Paul, Phi Delta Kappan, Executive Order, Harvard University Press, National Science Foundation, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, Basic Books, Brain Sex, Harvard Educational Review, Miss Bailey, Teachers College Press, Girl Scouts New!
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THE YEAR WAS 1969. I had been teaching part-time at the University of Maryland for several years during the time I worked on my doctorate and shortly after I finished it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chronic bad behavior, coed schools, school social context, indirect bullying, sex equity, coeducational environment, coed classes, mathematics attitudes, woman peril, parental consent laws, coeducational schools, schools shortchange girls, violent boys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, United States, American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Carol Gilligan, American Association of University Women, Miss Davis, Native American, Educational Testing Service, Journal of Educational Psychology, Kegan Paul, Phi Delta Kappan, Executive Order, Harvard University Press, National Science Foundation, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, Basic Books, Brain Sex, Harvard Educational Review, Miss Bailey, Teachers College Press, Girl Scouts New!
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- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on 6 pages
- Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls by Myra Sadker on 5 pages
- Making the Difference by R. W. Connell on 4 pages
- Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs on page 202, page 600, and page 605
- The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers in Front Matter, Back Matter, and Back Cover
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