ABSTRACT
Most teachers will, in recent years, have engaged in often heated debates about issues of both cultural diversity and gender equality in our schools. These debates may have taken place in staffrooms, playgrounds, at parents’ evenings and at teacher-union meetings, on courses and at conferences as well as in our own homes. They have often exposed our personal and professional sensitivities and left us with a range of contradictory feelings and understandings. We believe in equality and justice, we recognize the value and importance of diversity; how can we be sure that the approaches we adopt in our classrooms will bring about greater equality for girls and boys within school and in the world outside?
