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McKnight, Lucinda – Gender and Education, 2015
While the issue of boys' dominance of the curriculum has a long history, the article examines this phenomenon in a contemporary context, through an empirical study with female teachers designing English curriculum around girls' media in a coeducational secondary school in Victoria, Australia. In this space, teachers, and the researcher, produce…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Curriculum, Secondary Schools
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Cubero, Mercedes; Santamaría, Andrés; Rebollo, Mª Ángeles; Cubero, Rosario; García, Rafael; Vega, Luisa – Gender and Education, 2015
This article is focused on the analysis of the narratives produced by a group of teachers, experts in coeducation, while they were discussing their everyday activities. They are responsible for the implementation of a Plan for Gender Equality in public secondary schools in Andalusia (Spain). This study is based on contributions about doing gender…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Coeducation, Personal Narratives, Secondary School Teachers
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Hill, Joanne – Gender and Education, 2015
Within physical education and sport, girls must navigate discourses of valued athletic and gendered bodies that marginalise or "other" non-normative performances through systems of surveillance and punishment. The purpose of this paper is to share girls' perspectives on how these discourses affected their gender performances and activity…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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Tormey, Roland; Gleeson, Jim – Gender and Education, 2012
The growing literature on the gendering of citizenship and citizenship education highlights that western notions of "citizenship" have often been framed in a way that implicitly excludes women. At the same time, insofar as feminist writers have addressed citizenship, they have tended to see it in largely local and national terms. While…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Feminism
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Van Essen, Mineke – Gender and Education, 2003
Examines the development co-education in Dutch secondary physical education, suggesting that the dominant 20th century co-educational tradition in the Netherlands has influenced educational ideals and school practice with respect to physical education. Asserts that a historical lack of discussions about co-education trivializes today's problems in…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Physical Education
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Wilson, Dolly Smith – Gender and Education, 2007
The interwar decades saw a bitter recruiting war between the NUT (National Union of Teachers), the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT), and the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS), which like the NUWT broke away from the NUT in the early 1920s. The NAS opposed the NUT's official policy shift to support equal pay for male and female…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Power Structure, Unions
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Smith, Jeffrey – Gender and Education, 2007
The ongoing moral panic surrounding adolescent boys continues to cause concern, proving pivotal in popular discourses centring on the "problem of youth". Drawing on ethnographic data from a large co-educational secondary school, this paper illustrates how school outcomes are adversely affected by working class boys' investments in peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Coeducation, Outcomes of Education
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Brutsaert, Herman – Gender and Education, 2006
Drawing on survey data, this paper explores the association between early adolescents' gender-role identity and sense of peer group acceptance, and how this association may vary as a function of the gender context of the school. Two indicators of gender-role identity were included in the analysis: in one measure the items reflect features of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Peer Groups, Peer Acceptance, Early Adolescents
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Mensinger, Janell – Gender and Education, 2001
Examined the hypothesis that adolescent girls attending single-sex schools would exhibit greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their coeducational counterparts, reanalyzing data from relevant subscales of an eating disorder inventory (drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) and a figure rating scale from an earlier…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Coeducation, Eating Disorders
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Kruse, Anne-Mette – Gender and Education, 1992
Danish coeducational elementary school teachers are conducting innovative pedagogical projects and use sex segregation as an organizational method in introducing and developing equal opportunities and antisexist pedagogical initiatives. Teachers committed to gender equity and antisexism and who are close to their students can effectively use the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation