Whatever happened to equal opportunities in schools? : gender equality initiatives in education / edited by Kate Myers.
"Whatever Happened to Equal Opportunities in Schools? is an edited book which makes an important contribution to the current debate about equal opportunities. Today the dominant concern is about boys' achievement but it was not always thus. Contributors trace events relating to schools sin...
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Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia :
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. How did we get here? / Kate Myers
- pt. I. Country-wide initiatives
- 2. Prudence and progress: National policy for equal opportunities (gender) in schools since 1975 / Paddy Orr
- 3. Challenging inequalities in the classroom: the role and contribution of the Equal Opportunities Commission / Anne Madden
- 4. Equal to the task? The role of the NUT in promoting equal opportunities in schools / Ruth Blunt
- pt. II. Local education authorities
- 5. An episode in the thirty years war: race, sex and class in the ILEA 1981-90 / Frances Morrell
- 6. Now you see it, now you don't: gender equality work in Brent, 1982-8 / Hazel Taylor
- 7. Did it make a difference? The Ealing experience 1987-9 / Kate Myers
- pt. III. Projects
- 8. Was there really a problem? The Schools Council Sex Differentiation Project 1981-3 / Val Millman
- 9. Has the mountain moved? The Girls Into Science and Technology Project 1979-83 / Barbara Smail
- 10. Working with boys at Hackney Downs School 1980-4 / Frances Magee
- 11. Teachers, femocrats and academics: activism in London in the 1980s / Diana Leonard
- pt. IV. Whatever happened to ...
- 12. A black perspective / Marina Foster
- 13. When Ms. Muffet fought back: a view of work on children's books since the 1970s / Sue Adler
- pt. V. Conclusion
- 14. Lessons learned? / Kate Myers.