Physics Education: It’s Different for Girls?
Back in the late eighties I was one of two girls out of thirty pupils in my 5th form Physics class. While girls were happy to take up the Biology and Modern Language options, in my Physics class I...
View Article‘Keeping it Real’: teenage girls and everyday feminism
It is an overcast Friday in mid-October as the Cardiff University contingent (that’s us!) pull up outside a rated-but-dated business hotel in Newport; we are attending the #KeepingItReal conference for...
View ArticleInto the Woods
As a practicing middle school English Language Arts teacher and researcher in the Northeastern US, I am interested in the stories adolescents tell about their lives. To this end, my research in...
View ArticleThe sexually available versus the crooks; gender and HIV prevention education...
The cynic in me was not surprised to find that young women in Mozambique experienced sexual harassment in schools. I had thought carefully about this eventuality prior to setting out to Mozambique to...
View ArticleGEA 2013: Compelling Diversities, Educational Intersections: Policy,...
Gender and Education Association Biennial Conference 2013 Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University Tuesday 23rd– Friday 26th April 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers: –...
View ArticleGolden lads and girls all come to dust: School shootings and gender in a...
Golden lads and girls all must/As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. –Cymbeline I know there is very little left to say about the wholesale slaughter of women and children in a Newtown, Connecticut...
View ArticleBreaking the Mould – it’s child’s play
Resources for teachers and parents about children’s books that challenge gender stereotypes The National Union of Teachers has been working with a small group of primary schools to challenge...
View ArticleThe Muddy-Booted Boys: The Lads’ Redneck American Cousins
It was the first day of school, and we were standing on the bleachers in the gymnasium, waiting for the seniors to make their ceremonial entrance. I stood there with the ninth graders, craning my...
View ArticleBad Animals Sitting Sweetly: Some Thoughts on Naughtiness, Gender and What We...
Let it be known that my six-year-old daughter is a child rife with frolicsome mischief. The experience of parenting said child fostered my interest in naughty youngsters, the connections between...
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