Reassessing gender and achievement : questioning contemporary key debates /
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| Author / Creator: | Francis, Becky. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. |
| Description: | vii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5729495 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- The nature of 'achievement'
- Our own position
- So is there a 'gender gap' that favours girls?
- Does the gender gap matter?
- Is equity in achievement possible, or desirable?
- The structure of the book
- 2. Perspectives on gender and achievement
- Ideological perspectives: the durability of the nature versus nurture debate
- Theories used to explain gendered patterns in achievement
- 3. The construction of gender and achievement in education policy
- Introduction
- Educational policy and achievement across the Western world
- Policy in Australia, USA and UK
- Boys and schooling in educational discourses
- The emergence of new discourses on 'boys' underachievement'
- Conclusions
- 4. Evaluating 'boys' underachievement'
- Gender and achievement in examinations
- Boys' underachievement: the statistics
- 5. Explaining gender differences in achievement
- Introduction
- Explanation 1. Boys and girls are born with different interests, motivations and abilities
- Reaching a conclusion?
- Explanation 2. Boys and girls have different learning styles
- Explanation 3. Schools are 'feminised' and this disadvantages boys
- Statistics and the 'feminisation of teaching'
- Culture and the 'feminisation of teaching'
- Political usage of the term 'feminisation of teaching'
- The feminisation of primary schools?
- 'Doing' masculinity in the primary school
- Explanation 4. Assessment procedures and teaching practices are biased towards girls
- Assessment and achievement
- Explanation 5. Pupils' constructions of gender produce different behaviours which impact on achievement
- 6. What has happened to the girls?
- Introduction
- Girls' changed ambitions
- 'Achieving' girls...
- ...And 'underachieving' girls
- The gendered nature of 'girls' achievement'
- Classroom interaction and girls' experience of co-education
- 7. The future for boys and girls? (Re)constructions of gender and achievement
- The problematisation of boys
- How do boys present themselves?
- The gender of the 'ideal pupil'
- 'Caring masculinity'
- The persistence of misogyny
- The new masculinity?
- Reassessing gender and achievement
- 8. Raising achievement: what 'works in the classroom'?
- Introduction
- Approaches to be discouraged
- Whole school ethos
- Single-sex classrooms
- Mentoring
- Language and literacy
- Socio-cultural approaches to raising achievement
- Final words
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Notes
- References