The Quest for Gender Equity in America's Schools: From Preschool and Beyond

From hackers to luddites, game players to game creators: Profiles of adolescent students using technology

“…of contemporary curriculum (Pinar et al 1995, Rosser 1995, Bendixen-Noe and Hall 1996, Zaher 1996, Slaughter 1997. As Christian-Smith (quoted in Pinar et al 1995: 370) noted,`while the sociology of curriculum has carefully studied the role of the school in maintaining dominant social arrangements in societies characterized by strong class and racial divisions, it has only lately acknowledged that gender is an equally important dynamic in society' .…”

Investigating Perceptions of Gender Education by Students and Teachers in Taiwan

“…or the last 3 decades, researchers have focused considerable effort on promoting gender equity in school settings (e.g., Adams, 1998;Bendixen-Noe & Hall, 1996;Harrell, 1998;Zaher, 1996). They believed that if teachers and parents serve as positive role models and foster gender-equitable perceptions, students would have higher academic achievement and better self-concepts, whereas treating students in gender-biased ways could hinder their social and academic development (Zaher).…”