Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

by Sheila Riddell

This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils' decisions on what subject to take are influenced by how they perceive themselves in gender terms, and the curriculum once chosen reinforces their sense of gender divisions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113800636X
• ISBN13: 9781138006362
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"