Girls and Education 3-16

Girls and Education 3-16

Jackson, Carolyn; Paechter, Carrie; Renold, Emma

Open University Press

01/2010

Other book format

Inglês

9780335239788

0335239781

15 a 20 dias

This topical collection highlights the main issues faced by girls in Britain today, and endeavours to put girls back on the educational agenda. It is essential reading for students, academics and researchers in education, sociology, and girls' studies, as well as for school teachers and education policy makers.
Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part one - Girls and academic achievement Girls' achievement: contesting the positioning of girls as the relational 'achievers' to 'boys' underachievement Exploring girls' relationship to and with achievement: linking assessment, learning, mind and gender 'Rebels', 'bad girls' and 'misbehavers': exploring 'underachievement' in single-sex, selective schooling Refusing to integrate? Asian girls, achievement and the experience of schooling Fighting for an education: succeeding and surviving for girls in care at school Part two - Girls' experiences in the schooling system Inner city girls: Choosing schools and negotiating friendships 'Even the people you know turn their back on you': The influence of friendships and social networks on girls' experiences of physical education Schoolgirls and power/knowledge economies: using knowledge to mobilize social power 'You've got to have the pink one because you're a girl!' Exploring young girls' understanding of femininities and masculinities in preschool Gender and the new discipline agenda in Scottish schools Part three - Relationships between girls' out-of-school experiences and school life Demanding time: Balancing school and out-of-shool demands Sluts, whores, fat slags and playboy bunnies: Teen girls' negotiations of 'sexy' on social networking sites and at school 'I was kinda paralytic': pleasure, peril and teenage girls' drinking stories New literacies, old identities: Young girls' experiences of digital literacy at home and school Framing girls in girlhood studies: Gender/class/ifications in contemporary feminist representations
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