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Girls and education 3-16 : continuing concerns, new agendas / edited by Carolyn Jackson, Carrie Paechter, Emma Renold.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2010Description: xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 033523562X
  • 9780335235629
  • 0335235611
  • 9780335235612
Other title:
  • Girls and education three-sixteen
  • Girls and education 3 to 16
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.822 22
LOC classification:
  • LC212.8 .J33 2010
Contents:
Girls and academic achievement. Girls' achievement : contesting the positioning of girls as the relational 'achievers' to 'boys' underachievement' / Becky Francis ; Exploring girls' relationship to and with achievement : linking assessment, learning, mind and gender / Jannette Elwood ; 'Rebels', 'bad girls' and 'misbehavers' : exploring 'underachievement' in single-sex, selective schooling / Alexandra Allan ; Refusing to integrate? : Asian girls, achievement and the experience of schooling / Farzana Shain ; Fighting for an education : succeeding and surviving for girls in care at school / Emma Renold -- Girls' experiences in the schooling system. Inner city girls : choosing schools and negotiating friendships / Rosalyn George ; 'Even the people you know turn their back on you' : the influence of friendships and social networks on girls' experiences of physical education / Laura Hills ; Schoolgirls and power/knowledge economies : using knowledge to mobilize social power / Carrie Paechter and Sheryl Clark ; 'You've got to have the pink one because you're a girl!' : exploring young girls' understanding of femininities and masculinities in preschool / Barbara Martin ; Gender and the new discipline agenda in Scottish schools / Sheila Riddell, Jean Kane, Gwynedd Lloyd, Gillean McCluskey, Joan Stead and Elisabet Weedon -- Relationships between girls' out-of-school experiences and school life. Demanding time : balancing school and out-of-school demands / Carolyn Jackson ; Sluts, whores, fat slags and playboy bunnies : teen girls' negotiations of 'sexy' on social networking sites and at school / Jessica Ringrose ; 'I was kinda paralytic' : pleasure, peril and teenage girls' drinking stories / Fin Cullen ; New literacies, old identities : young girls' experiences of digital literacy at home and school / Jackie Marsh ; Framing girls in girlhood studies : gender/class/ifications in contemporary feminist representations / Valerie Hey.
Summary: This collection focuses on continuing gender inequalities, and social and educational injustices in girls' lives. It begins to redress two dominant, current trends: namely, the narrow focus on boys' attainment in educational policy and the turn to boys and masculinities in gender and education research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Girls and academic achievement. Girls' achievement : contesting the positioning of girls as the relational 'achievers' to 'boys' underachievement' / Becky Francis ; Exploring girls' relationship to and with achievement : linking assessment, learning, mind and gender / Jannette Elwood ; 'Rebels', 'bad girls' and 'misbehavers' : exploring 'underachievement' in single-sex, selective schooling / Alexandra Allan ; Refusing to integrate? : Asian girls, achievement and the experience of schooling / Farzana Shain ; Fighting for an education : succeeding and surviving for girls in care at school / Emma Renold -- Girls' experiences in the schooling system. Inner city girls : choosing schools and negotiating friendships / Rosalyn George ; 'Even the people you know turn their back on you' : the influence of friendships and social networks on girls' experiences of physical education / Laura Hills ; Schoolgirls and power/knowledge economies : using knowledge to mobilize social power / Carrie Paechter and Sheryl Clark ; 'You've got to have the pink one because you're a girl!' : exploring young girls' understanding of femininities and masculinities in preschool / Barbara Martin ; Gender and the new discipline agenda in Scottish schools / Sheila Riddell, Jean Kane, Gwynedd Lloyd, Gillean McCluskey, Joan Stead and Elisabet Weedon -- Relationships between girls' out-of-school experiences and school life. Demanding time : balancing school and out-of-school demands / Carolyn Jackson ; Sluts, whores, fat slags and playboy bunnies : teen girls' negotiations of 'sexy' on social networking sites and at school / Jessica Ringrose ; 'I was kinda paralytic' : pleasure, peril and teenage girls' drinking stories / Fin Cullen ; New literacies, old identities : young girls' experiences of digital literacy at home and school / Jackie Marsh ; Framing girls in girlhood studies : gender/class/ifications in contemporary feminist representations / Valerie Hey.

This collection focuses on continuing gender inequalities, and social and educational injustices in girls' lives. It begins to redress two dominant, current trends: namely, the narrow focus on boys' attainment in educational policy and the turn to boys and masculinities in gender and education research.

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