Divide And School Gender And Class Dynamics In Comprehensive Education

First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Comprehensive Education: Past Debates and Future Ideals; Chapter 2 Sociology of Education and Secondary Schooling; Chapter 3 Research Methodology and Design; Chapter 4 Organizational Differentiation and Polarization: Setting, Social Class and Pupil Values; Chapter 5 Gender, Differentiation and Deviance; Chapter 6 The Subject-option Process: Pupil Choice in School Knowledge; Chapter 7 Gendering and Stratification of School Knowledge; Chapter 8 Teacher Ideology and Sex Roles in Curriculum Texts; Chapter 9 Conclusions, Implications and Social Change;

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

John Abraham is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Reading, UK.