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Gender and Education: Ninety-Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Educationreviewed by Maxine Schwartz Seller - 1994  Title: Gender and Education: Ninety-Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of EducationAuthor(s): Sari Knopp Biklen & Diana Pollard Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0226601595, Pages: 288, Year: 1993 Search for book at Amazon.com The collection consists of fourteen papers roughly grouped into six thematic categories. While the authors include a freelance writer (formerly an English teacher), an urban superintendent, and a member of the U.S. Department of Education, most are academics and professional researchers. Within this academic framework, the papers address a wide range of topics--from the expected (but not, therefore, less valuable), such as gender inequity in the classroom, sexual harassment, and multicultural education, to the unexpected, such as the impact of technology and the dinner conversations of four teenagers about growing up female in the 1990s. The methodologies and formats also vary, including history, ethnography, literature reviews, and policy perspectives. A few of the papers are marred by too much academic jargon. (Can we find ways to communicate, at least temporarily, without overusing words like "discourse," "social construction," and "knowledges," inevitably "embedded" in "multiple contexts?") Fortunately, most are clearly written and accessible to a broad range of readers. Readers will value the various articles differently, depending on their interests... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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