Hammersley, Martyn; Woods, Peter

`This book is a must for practising teachers contemplating their own studies, ...' - Education Review Autumn 1993`The ultimate fascination, and achievement, of Gender and Ethnicity in Schools is that the reader completes the book immeasurably better prepared to explore ethnographic accounts in constructively critical way. In a era in which teachers are encouraged to take a personal interest in professional development this book should therefore prove popular beyond the ranks of those formally undertaking further study.' - Gender & Education

• Introduction; Part 1 Gender; Chapter 1 Gender implications of children's playground culture, Elizabeth Grugeon; Chapter 2 Sex and the quiet schoolgirl, Julia Stanley; Chapter 3 We're back with Gobbo, Joan Draper; Chapter 4 Humour as resistance, W. S. Dubberley; Chapter 5 Gender imbalances in the primary classroom, Jane French, Peter French; Chapter 6 An evaluation of a study of gender imbalance in primary classrooms, Martyn Hammersley; Part 2 Ethnicity; Chapter 7 Ethnicity and friendship, Martyn Denscombe, Halina Szulc, Caroline Patrick, Ann Wood; Chapter 8 Beyond the white norm, Máirtin Mac an Ghaill; Chapter 9 Genre, ethnocentricity and bilingualism in the English classroom, A. Moore; Chapter 10 School processes — an ethnographic study, Cecile Wright; Chapter 11 Case not proven, Peter Foster;