ABSTRACT

A serious but highly accessible look at recent work on the issues of gender and race. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools raises crucial educational and political issues, paying particular attention to the pupils' experience of school.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part I|116 pages

Gender

chapter 2|15 pages

Sex and the quiet schoolgirl

chapter 3|26 pages

We're back with Gobbo

The re-establishment of gender relations following a school merger

chapter 4|20 pages

Humour as resistance

chapter 5|18 pages

Gender imbalances in the primary classroom

An interactional account

part II|99 pages

Ethnicity

chapter 7|18 pages

Ethnicity and friendship

The contrast between sociometric research and fieldwork observation in primary school classrooms

chapter 8|21 pages

Beyond the white norm

The use of qualitative methods in the study of black youths' schooling in England

chapter 11|8 pages

Case not proven

An evaluation of a study of teacher racism