Product Description: Since the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women’s rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe. But has equality—whether social, political, or legal—really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E...read more

Product Description: Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transform women’s lives in the direction of gender and social equality became an educational and pedagogical one...read more

Product Description: Has higher education been transformative over the last three decades? Miram David’s question is double-edged, based on her educational experience and her social research. What influences have second wave feminists, drawing on feminism as the key social movement of the twentieth century had on the pedagogies and practices in global higher education? As aspiring academics, their aims were for gender and social justice through inclusive pedagogies in higher education or lifelong learning...read more

Product Description: Miriam David reviews education policy and academic developments over the last thirty years in light of her own experience in family and higher education. She explores the relationships between social and family change, political movements and public policy developments and shows how they have influenced theories, research and methodologies in the academy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or gender. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or gender. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The fate of the family is high on the public policy agenda. There are fewer marriages and more divorces; fewer births but a higher proportion outside marriage; more cohabitation and more people living alone. So is the family declining or just changing? And what do we mean by 'family' anyway? In the first part of this book John Haskey, the distinguished and widely-respected head of the Social Statistics Unit within the Demography and Health Division of the Office for National Statistics, sets out the facts...read more

Product Description: Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control?In an attempt to find answers to these questions Negotiating the Glass Ceiling gathers together the unique personal reflections of 16 eminent women working in higher education across the world...read more

Product Description: Parental choice of school is a major policy issue. The 1988 Education Reform Act widened parental choice by creating a range of new types of school including Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges. In theory, at least, the balance of power between parents and schools as far as choice is concerned has thus altered in the direction of parents as decision makers...read more

Product Description: This book provides a detailed review of the complex relations between families and schools in the context of changing family structures and educational policies.