Dolls and Dungarees: Gender Issues in the Primary School Curriculum (Gender and Education)

by EvaTutchell (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

  This book considers the issue of gender inequality in primary schools, concentrating on some current anti-sexist initiatives by teachers. It tackles the wider contexts in which an anti-sexist curriculum can be introduced and sustained, but focuses on case-studies of actual practice, examples of anti-sexist initiatives in the classroom. It describes and analyzes initiatives in such areas as drama, fiction, design and technology, science, the bilingual classroom and combating sexist behaviour by boys. Whilst providing these individual case-studies, Dolls and Dungarees emphasizes the crucial importance of collaboration and consultation in the successful deployment of anti-sexist strategies in our primary schools.