Claiming an Education
Feminism and Canadian Schools
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Curricula, Women's Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921908029
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Beginning with a concrete definition of feminism in relation to education, the authors of this popular and challenging study suggest an answer to the crucial questions: What are our schools teaching, in what way, and how does it impact on the lives of women?
The incisive and thought-provoking contents of this volume include "Equality of Opportunity: Issues of Access and Achievement"; "What is Worth Knowing?: Defining a Feminist Curriculum"; "Teachers, Child Care Workers and Mothers: The Work of Caring and Educating"; "Post-secondary Education and Beyond."
Claiming an Education offers a balanced presentation of the central issues facing education planners as they struggle to define the place of feminism in Canadian schools.
An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
About the authors
Jane Gaskell is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
MYRA NOVOGRODSKY is Coordinator of Women's and Labour Studies at the Toronto Board of Education.
Myra Novogrodsky's profile page
ARLENE MCLAREN is in the Sociology Department at Simon Fraser University.