1st Edition

Divide And School Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Comprehensive Education: Past Debates and Future Ideals; Chapter 2 Sociology of Education and Secondary Schooling; Chapter 3 Research Methodology and Design; Chapter 4 Organizational Differentiation and Polarization: Setting, Social Class and Pupil Values; Chapter 5 Gender, Differentiation and Deviance; Chapter 6 The Subject-option Process: Pupil Choice in School Knowledge; Chapter 7 Gendering and Stratification of School Knowledge; Chapter 8 Teacher Ideology and Sex Roles in Curriculum Texts; Chapter 9 Conclusions, Implications and Social Change;

    Biography

    Abraham, John