Girl Friendly Schooling | Maureen Cruickshank, Rosemary Deem, Lesley K

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Girl Friendly Schooling

ABSTRACT

Asks what makes schooling unfriendly to girls and examines the success or otherwise of interventions intended to bring about change.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part One What makes schooling unfriendly to girls?

chapter |4 pages

Editors’ introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

Patrick Orr Sex bias in schools: national perspectives

chapter 2|12 pages

John Pratt The attitudes of teachers

chapter 3|9 pages

Margaret Goddard Spear Teachers’ attitudes towards girls and technology

chapter 4|26 pages

Val Millman The new vocationalism in secondary schools: its influence on girls

part |2 pages

Part Two Interventions to make schooling more girl friendly

chapter |4 pages

Editors’ introduction

chapter 5|16 pages

Girl friendly science and the girl friendly school Judith Whyte

chapter 6|12 pages

Helene Witcher Personal and professional: a feminist approach

chapter 7|14 pages

Hazel Taylor INSET for equal opportunities in the London Borough of Brent

chapter 8|12 pages

Carol Adams Teacher attitudes towards issues of sex equality

chapter 9|18 pages

Jenny Headlam Wells ‘Humberside goes neuter’: an example of LEA intervention for equal opportunities

chapter 10|8 pages

Andrew Cant Development of LEA policy: Manchester

part |2 pages

Part Three Reflections on intervention: where do we go from here?

chapter 11|7 pages

Legislation and mediation: to what extent has the Sex Discrimination Act changed girls’ schooling ?

chapter 12|25 pages

Lesley Kant A question of judgment

chapter 13|18 pages

Hilda Davidson Unfriendly myths about women teachers

chapter 4|22 pages

teen Lyn Yates Is ‘girl friendly schooling’ really what girls need?

chapter |3 pages

Editorial note