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Author : Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Release : 1984
Genre : Academic achievement
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Book Synopsis Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Adolescent Academic Achievement Attitude and Behaviors by : Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Download or read book Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Adolescent Academic Achievement Attitude and Behaviors written by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dunchun Zheng
Release : 1991
Genre : Academic achievement
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Book Synopsis Race and Gender Differences in Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Academic Achievement by : Dunchun Zheng
Download or read book Race and Gender Differences in Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Academic Achievement written by Dunchun Zheng. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Wrigley
Release : 2003-12-16
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Education and Gender Equality by : Julia Wrigley
Download or read book Education and Gender Equality written by Julia Wrigley. This book was released on 2003-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. This book grew out of a special issue of the journal Sociology of Education. There is no simple relation between education and gender equality. As with social class relations, schools both reinforce subordination and create new possibilities for liberation, and these contradictions occur at every level and in every aspect of education. Schools are sites of pervasive gender socialization, but they offer girls a chance to use their brains and develop their skills. To explore education and gender is to examine the bridge between the public world of occupations and the private world of families. Schools link the families from which young children come and the sex- and race-segregated occupational worlds to which they are sent. Because schools link public and private worlds, help to form consciousness, and structure inequalities, there are many ways to look at gender and education. In this book, the chapters break into four major topic areas. The first section analyzes gender and education from a comparative and historical perspective, the second section on ‘Diversity, Social Control, and Resistance in Classrooms’, third section, on ‘Gender and Knowledge’ and the final section on ‘families and school’.
Author : Erin McNamara Horvat
Release : 2006-03-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Beyond Acting White by : Erin McNamara Horvat
Download or read book Beyond Acting White written by Erin McNamara Horvat. This book was released on 2006-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Blacks underperform in school? Researchers continue to pursue this question with vigor not only because Blacks currently lag behind Whites on a wide variety of educational indices but because the closing of the Black-White achievement gap has slowed and by some measures reversed during the last quarter of the 20th century. The social implications of the persistent educational 'gap' between Blacks and Whites are substantial. Black people's experience with poor school achievement and equally poor access to postsecondary education reduces their probability for achieving competitive economic and social rewards and are inconsistent with repeated evidence that Black people articulate high aspirations for their own educational and social mobility. Despite the social needs that press us towards making better sense of 'the gap,' we are, nevertheless, limited in our understanding of how race operates to affect Black students' educational experiences and outcomes. In Beyond Acting White we contend with one of the most oft cited explanations for Black underachievement; the notion that Blacks are culturally opposed to 'acting White' and, therefore, culturally opposed to succeeding in school. Our book uses the 'acting White' hypothesis as the point of departure in order to explore and evaluate how and under what conditions Black culture and identity are implicated in our understanding of why Black students continue to lag behind their White peers in educational achievement and attainment. Beyond Acting White provides a response to the growing call that we more precisely situate how race, its representations, intersectionalities, and context specific contingencies help us make better sense of the Black-White achievement gap.
Author : Andreas Hadjar
Release : 2018-02-02
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Gender and Educational Achievement by : Andreas Hadjar
Download or read book Gender and Educational Achievement written by Andreas Hadjar. This book was released on 2018-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career, it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s, women’s participation in upper secondary general education, and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway, have been lower than men’s. However, towards the end of the 20th century, women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities, gender-related perceptions, students’ motivation, intelligence, personality, and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research.
