Rethinking Single Sex Teaching by Gabrielle Ivinson
The retreat to single sex classes in co-educational comprehensive schools in the UK reflects a long history where educational policy and practice has made explicit the belief that boys and girls are different in how they learn and what they should learn. However, there is also a common assumption that there is equality in what is made available to learn and, if there is not, then single sex organisation achieves this. The authors challenge this opinion and offer a fresh look at the debate about single-sex teaching, assessing its merits and presenting insights from research about the intended and unintended consequences of gender division in schools. Drawing on classroom observations and in-depth interviews with teachers and pupils, the book illustrates how single sex classrooms operate and the effect it has on learners.
Gabrielle Ivinson is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Patricia Murphy is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780335220403 |
| ISBN 10 | 0335220401 |
| Title | Rethinking Single Sex Teaching |
| Author | Gabrielle Ivinson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open University Press |
| Year published | 2007-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
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