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Subject(s)

• Educational sociology [Browse]
• Multicultural education [Browse]
• Sex discrimination in education [Browse]

Related name

• Hammersley, Martyn [Browse]
• Woods, Peter, 1934- [Browse]

Series

Open University set book [More in this series]

Summary note

Gender and ethnicity produce a complex patterning of pupils' careers in schools and raise crucial educational and political issues. This book offers a sample of recent ethnographic work that considers seriously these dimensions of pupils' experience.

Notes

"In association with the Open University."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Gender implications of children's playground culture / Elizabeth Grugeon
• Sex and the quiet schoolgirl / Julia Stanley
• We're back with Gobbo : the re-establishment of gender relations following a school merger / Joan Draper
• Humour as resistance / W.S. Dubberley
• Gender imbalances in the primary classroom : an interactional account / Jane French and Peter French
• An evaluation of a study of gender imbalance in primary classrooms / Martyn Hammersley
• Ethnicity and friendship : the contrast between sociometric research and fieldwork observation in primary school classrooms / Martyn Denscombe [and others]
• Beyond the white norm : the use of qualitative methods in the study of black youths' schooling in England / Máirtin Mac an Ghaill
• Genre, ethnocentricity and bilingualism in the English classroom / A. Moore
• School processes, an ethnographic study / Cecile Wright
• Case not proven : an evaluation of a study of teacher racism / Peter Foster.

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ISBN

• 0415089670
• 9780415089678
• 0415089689 ((pbk.))
• 9780415089685 ((pbk.))

LCCN

92024483

OCLC

26161042

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