Gender in the Secondary Curriculum: Balancing

The "gender gap" in test results continues to be of prime concern, and there is now a real need for knowledge about how teachers can address this gap. In this volume, a team of contributors considers the gender issues particular to each subject of the secondary curriculum. They discuss effective strategies supported by their research and practice, and offer some ways forward for teachers.

List of illustrations

x

(2)

Notes on contributors

xii

Introduction

1

(8)

ANN CLARK

ELAINE MILLARD

PART I The gendered curriculum

9

(154)

1 Taking risks or playing safe: boys' and girls' talk

11

(16)

JULIA DAVIES

2 Resistant boys and modern languages: a case of underachievement

27

(16)

ANN CLARK

3 Balancing the books: tackling gender differences in reading

43

(17)

ELAINE MILLARD

4 Science education for all? Towards more equitable science education

60

(20)

JON SCAIFE

5 Whose turn next? Gender issues in information technology

80

(16)

CLIVE OPIE

6 Eclipsed by Eton fields? Physical education and equal opportunities

96

(11)

ALAN SKELTON

7 Shifting the goalposts: girls, women and soccer

107

(24)

JERRY WELLINGTON

8 `That spark from heaven' or `of the earth': girls and boys and knowing mathematics

131

(14)

HILARY POVEY

9 Action, embodiment and gender in the design and technology classroom

145

(18)

CAROLYN DIXON

PART II Gendered choices post-16

163

(30)

10 The gendered landscape of post-compulsory routes

165

(11)

LORNA UNWIN

11 `Equal opportunities' within the post-compulsory sector: training for undereducated, unemployed women

176

(17)

JACKY BRINE

PART III Gendered schooling and differential achievement

193

(51)

12 Making sense of the `gender gap' in examinations at GCSE

195

(18)

DAVID JESSON

13 Gendered relations beyond the curriculum: peer groups, family and work

213

(13)

MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL

CHRIS HAYWOOD

14 Gender and underachievement: democratic educational reform through discourse evaluation

226

(18)

JOHN QUICKE

Endnote

244

(10)

ELAINE MILLARD

Index

254

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Gender in the Secondary Curriculum: Balancing the Books

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