Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

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ISBN: 9780415194341 | 0415194342
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Copyright: 12/29/1999

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This book is an edited collection of chapters that aims to look at the developments that have taken place in recent years in gender policies. So many reforms have been made, yet often greater exclusion has been a result of these. How have gender issues affected educational policy and what have we learned? The contreibutors hope to provide answers.

List of figures

xii

List of tables

xiii

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

xix

List of abbreviations

Introduction: educational reforms and equal opportunities programmes

(1)

Sheila Riddell

Jane Salisbury

Introduction: the reform of education

(2)

Gender struggles within education: the historical context

(2)

Feminisms in education and the construction of `equality'

(2)

Educational reforms and equal opportunities: multiple policy agendas in action

(1)

Structure of the book

(6)

In conclusion

(1)

References

(2)

PART 1 Gender and educational reforms: the UK and European context

(96)

Gender equality and schooling, education policy-making and feminist research in England and Wales in the 1990s

(18)

Miriam David

Gaby Weiner

Madeleine Arnot

Introduction

(1)

Gender and policy-making

(3)

The EOC study: educational reforms and gender equality in schools

(1)

Evaluating and reflecting on the research

(1)

Research findings

(4)

Feminist research for educational change

(2)

Shifts in research context: taking a critical stance

(1)

Designing a feminist research project in a cold climate

(2)

Problems of explaining change

(2)

References

(3)

Equal opportunities and educational reform in Scotland: the limits of liberalism

(18)

Sheila Riddell

Introduction

(1)

Scottish education and gender equality

(1)

The development of national and regional equal opportunities policies in Scotland

(3)

The nature of educational reforms in Scotland

(3)

The impact of the reforms at school level

(6)

Discussion: the fate of equal opportunites strategies in the two schools

(1)

References

(3)

Beyond one border: educational reforms and gender equality in Welsh schools

(25)

Jane Salisbury

Introduction

(1)

A border makes a difference: the policy context in Wales

(2)

Institutional gaps: the reforms in Wales

(3)

Impact of educational reforms on gender equality in schools in Wales

(1)

Curriculum, assessment and monitoring reforms

(7)

Reforms concerning the administration and organisation of schools

(4)

Snapshots and mixed and partial pictures of equal opportunities and gender equality work

(2)

Concluding remarks

(1)

Notes

(1)

References

(4)

Gender, educational reform and equality in Northern Ireland

(19)

Anthony M. Gallagher

Robert J. Cormack

Robert D. Osborne

Introduction

(1)

Education in Northern Ireland

(2)

Gender and attainment

(5)

Attainment and religion

(3)

Current evidence on attainment

(1)

Equal opportunites in the universities

Equity policy

(3)

Equality, education and the future

(2)

References

(3)

Mainstreaming European `equal opportunities': marginalising UK training for women

(14)

Jacky Brine

Introduction

(2)

European equal opportunities policy

101

(1)

UK interpretation of European equal opportunities policy

102

(2)

Interpretation of UK policy by training managers and providers

104

(1)

Understandings of the training needs of women and equal opportunities

104

(5)

Future policy directions

109

(2)

Note

111

(1)

References

111

(2)

PART 2 Structures and processes in schools and classrooms

113

(76)

Gender and national curricula

115

(19)

Linda Croxford

Introduction

115

(1)

What are the purposes of a national curriculum?

116

(2)

National curricula in the UK: what are the differences?

118

(3)

Changes to the national curricula

121

(2)

Implications of national curricula for gender equality

123

(1)

Gender differences in subject choice

123

(2)

Choice within the national curriculum: some empirical evidence with respect to participation in science in Scotland

125

(3)

Gender differences in post-compulsory education

128

(2)

Conclusion

130

(1)

Acknowledgements

131

(1)

Notes

131

(1)

References

132

(2)

Equity, assessment and gender

134

(19)

Patricia Murphy

Introduction

134

(1)

Changes in assessment policy

135

(2)

Assessment and learning

137

(2)

Equity and bias

139

(1)

Impact of changes in assessment on girls' and boys' performance

140

(2)

Sources of invalidity

142

(2)

Performance in GCSE examinations

144

(1)

Formal examinations and sources of invalidity

145

(3)

Implications, priorities and future research

148

(2)

References

150

(3)

Gender in the classrooms of more and less `effective' schools

153

(16)

Jill Duffield

Introduction

153

(2)

Gender findings of a school effectiveness study

155

(7)

Pupil perceptions and gender

162

(2)

Conclusion

164

(2)

Note

166

(1)

References

167

(2)

All change, no change: gendered regimes in the post-sixteen setting

169

(20)

Sheila Macrae

Meg Maguire

Girls and attainment: behind the rhetoric

169

(1)

The study

170

(2)

Girls and boys and GCSE results

172

(1)

Attitudes and motivations

172

(4)

Good girls, wives and mothers: in-school relations

176

(2)

The more things change, the more they are the same

178

(1)

Sexual and gender relations

179

(5)

Conclusion

184

(1)

Acknowledgements

185

(1)

Notes

185

(1)

References

185

(4)

PART 3 Delegation and the new managerialism

189

(38)

Gendered governance: education reform and lay involvement in the local management of schools

191

(17)

Rosemary Deem

Introduction

191

(2)

Educational policy analysis and gendered perspectives

193

(1)

Why be a governor? Some gendered parameters

194

(2)

Gender and markets

196

(2)

Governors: chief executives or volunteers?

198

(4)

Gendered organisational cultures and `new managerialism'

202

(1)

Conclusion

203

(2)

Note

205

(1)

References

205

(3)

Women head teachers in Northern Ireland

208

(19)

Teresa Rees

Philip Heaton

Lyn McBriar

Introduction

208

(2)

School Principals in Northern Ireland: a political arithmetic

210

(3)

The study

213

(1)

The role of Principal

214

(3)

The role of governor

217

(4)

The gendering of discipline

221

(5)

Conclusion

226

(1)

Acknowledgements

227

(1)

Notes

227

(1)

References

227

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Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

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