Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls.

Autor/inn/en	Sadker, Myra; Sadker, David
Titel	Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls.
Quelle	(1994), (347 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-684-19541-0
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Achievement; Cognitive Style; Educational Environment; Educational Improvement; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Females; Longitudinal Studies; Nondiscriminatory Education; School Attitudes; Sex Bias; Sex Discrimination; Sex Fairness; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Student Needs; Student School Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Womens Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sex; Discrimination; Geschlecht; Diskriminierung; Sexualaufklärung; Schülerverhalten; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Lehrerverhalten; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung
Abstract	Drawing on findings from 20 years of research on sexism in American classrooms, this book examines the history of women's education and its shortcomings. The hidden curriculum, the effect of gender bias on self-esteem, test results, and professional orientation of girls from primary education through college were examined through naturalistic observation. The results suggest that girls are systematically denied opportunities in areas where boys are encouraged to excel, often by well-meaning teachers who are unaware that they are transmitting sexist values. Girls are taught to speak quietly, to defer to boys, to avoid math and science, and to value neatness over innovation, appearance over intelligence. In the early grades, girls, brimming with intelligence and potential, routinely outperform boys on achievement tests, but by the time they graduate from high school they lag far behind boys--a process of degeneration that continues into adulthood. The subtle and often inadvertent sexism by even well-intentioned people contributes to an environment that ultimately negatively impacts the healthy development of many girls. This book, by describing how adults "fail in fairness," gives suggestions on what must be done to make schools serve all children better. A list of over 250 recommended books with strong female characters is included. (AA)
Anmerkungen	Macmillan Publishing Company, 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 (hardcover: ISBN-0-684-19541-0, $22; paper: ISBN-0-684-800-73-X, $12).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC