The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education

Christine Skelton is Professor of Gender Equality in Education. She is Director of Research and a Deputy Head of the School of Education. My early research focused on teacher professional development through classroom-based action research. In addition to that applied work, I also do qualitative research which examines the intersection of teachers′ and administrators′ personal and professional lives within particular institutional and social contexts. I am particularly interested in the role that gender plays as a part of the construction of self in students′, teachers′, and administrators′ experiences. I also explore the advantages and dilemmas inherent in using qualitative research methods, in particular ethnography and life history interviews, as a way of bringing previously unheard voices and frameworks of meaning making into the field. I am currently moving into an exploration of some of these issues in international contexts. I have examined teacher education and staff development in Indonesia, South Africa, and China and worked directly with teachers in Indonesia to explorethe possibility of more student-centered learning.Most of my courses are interdisciplinary, drawing on work in the fields of Psychology, Sociology and History. In courses and seminars such as Comparative Education, Adolescence, Gender and Education, and Social and Cultural Perspectives in Education my goal is to help students examine the interactions among individuals, institutions, and social contexts. I am interested in exploring - and having students explore - the role of schools as social institutions that can both contribute to and simultaneously challenge existing social constructs and power relationships.

"This handbook gives a broad and informative overview of recent feminist scholarship about gender and education that will be helpful to both students and educators. The Sage Handbook of Gender and Education would be an important resource for academic libraries at colleges or universities that have programs or courses in education and/or women′s and gender studies."

• SECTION ONE: GENDER THEORY AND METHODOLOGYIntroductionThe ′Nature of Gender′ - Becky FrancisUnderstanding Men: Gender Sociology and the New International Research on Masulinities - R.W. ConnellFemininities: Reclassifying Upward Mobility and the Neo-liberal Subject - Valerie Walkerdine & Jessica RingroseGender, Education and Social Thought - Jo-Anne DillaboughGender and Methodology - Catherine Marshall & Michelle YoungFeminist Pedagogy - Gaby WeinerGender, Education and Development - Elaine UnterhalterGender and Movements in Social Policy - Meg MaguireSECTION TWO: GENDER AND THE EDUCATIONAL SECTORSIntroductionConstructing Gender in Early Years Education - Glenda MacNaughtonBoys and Girls in the Elementary School - Christine SkeltonMasculinities and Femininities and Secondary Schooling - Kevin G. Davison & Blye W. FrankGender Equity in Post Secondary Education - Carol LeathwoodGender and Higher Education - Sara DelamontSingle Sex Education - Diane LeonardSECTION THREE: GENDER AND SCHOOL SUBJECTSIntroductionGender and Mathematics - Jo Boaler & Tesha Sengupta-IrvingEngaging Girls in Science - Angela Calabrese Barton & Nancy BrickhouseGender and Literacy - Bronwyn Davies and Sue Saltmarsh′Sex′ Education - Bagele ChilisaGender Issues in Testing and Assessment - Janette ElwoodGender and Citizenship - Tuula GordonGender and Modern Language Education - Linda von HoeneGender and Technology: What the Research Tells Us - Jo SandersSECTION FOUR: GENDER, IDENTITY AND EDUCATIONAL SITESIntroductionRoom at the Table: Racial and Gendered Realities in the Schooling of Black Children - Janie Ward & Tracy Robinson WoodGender and Class in Education - Diane ReayThe ′Right′ Way to Educate Boys - Wayne MartinoFemininities and Schooling - Carrie PaechterSexualities, Schooling and Hetero-Gender - D James Mellor & Debbie EpsteinAchieving Equity: Disability and Gender - Harilyn Rousso & Michael L. WehmeyerGender Voices in the Classroom - Madeleine ArnotSECTION FIVE: WORKING IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGESIntroductionSchool Culture and Gender - Fengshu LuiGendered Classroom Experiences - Emma RenoldWomen in Teaching - Jane Gaskell & Ann MullenConstructing Teaching Identities - Lisa SmulyanWomen Working in Academe: Approach with Care - Sandra Acker & Michelle WebberGender and School Administration - Charol Shakeshaft