Tackling gender inequality, raising pupil achievement
Title:
Tackling gender inequality, raising pupil achievement
Author:
Forde, Christine.
ISBN:
9781906716790
9781903765753
Publication Information:
Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 86 p.)
Series:
Policy and practice in education ; 20
Policy and practice in education ; 20.
Contents:
Gender in an inclusion agenda: boys first, girls first? / Christine Forde -- Responding to concerns: policies and strategies in gender and education / Rae Condie -- Literacy and gender -- contextualisation and development / Alastair McPhee -- Organising boys and girls: are single-gender contexts the way forward? / Jean Kane -- Self-concept, self-esteem, identity and gender / George Head -- Taking gender forward / Rae Condie, Christine Forde and George Head.
Abstract:
Gender remains a significant issue in United Kingdom education with a perceived drop in the attainment of boys in comparison to the attainment of girls. This text examines developing policy and strategies in schools that aim to tackle gender inequality.
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