The Politics of Gender and Education: Critical Perspectives

Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction PART I: POLITICAL AND POLICY CONTEXTS A Feminist Critique of Public Policy Discourse about Educational Effectiveness; M.E.David Turning it Around: Debating Approaches to Gender and North-South Learning; H.Poulsen Boys and Underachievement in the Canadian Context: No Proof for Panic; K.G.Davison, T.A.Lovell, B.W.Frank and A.B.Vibert PART II: MACRO POLICIES AND MICRO EFFECTS Gender Equity Policy and Education: Reporting on/from Canada; L.Eyre, T.A.Lovell and C.A.Smith Genderspace: Learning Online and the Implications of Gender; C.Hanson, S.Flansberg and M.S.Castano Inside Leadership Circles and the Managerial Quagmire: Key Influences on Women Administrators' Mobility and Opportunity in US Higher Education; M.A.Danowitz Sagaria and M.A.Rychener PART III: POLITICISING EDUCATIONAL IDENTITIES Feet of Class and Relations of Power; J.Brine Gender, Identity and Social Change: Understanding Adults' Learner Careers; S.Webb Diverse Identities in Postgraduate Research: Experiencing Gender and Class; S.Clegg The Corporealty of Learning: Women Students and the Body; J.Quinn Index