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class=061274411-29102007>Some of you may be interested in the following seminar
which will take place at the University of Birmingham on 21st November.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB'">Wednesday 21<SUP>st</SUP>
November, 2007, 3:30 – 5:00p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB'">Christine Skelton,
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB'">“Gender Discourses in
Primary Schools”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB'">It is almost 30 years
since the publication of Eileen Byrne’s (1978) <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Women and Education</I><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, </B>one of the first <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> books on
gender and education.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>The chapter in
Byrne’s book ‘Pre-school and primary – the formative years’ made two related
arguments. The first was theoretical where she set out the reasons why gender
differences were more likely due to socialisation than genetics or innate
abilities. The second argument was that stereotypical differences pervaded
classroom materials, organisation, and teacher attitudes and expectations; and
it was the perpetuation of these that accounted for the differences between
girls and boys. These, and other markers of gender inequalities experienced by
pupils in schools were dubbed ‘the schooling scandal’ by Dale Spender (1982). In
the thirty years that have elapsed since second wave feminists in the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> started to research schooling
there has appeared a rich literature on gender, inequality and education;
policies have been developed and, more recently, the government has produced
guidance materials on gender and the teaching and learning of boys and girls.
The question this session sets out to consider is ‘to what extent has “the
schooling scandal” of gender inequities been resolved for girls and boys in
today’s primary schools?’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB'">This session will
identify current discourses on gender in primary schools, specifically, policy
discourses, professional discourses and the personal discourses of primary
teachers. Data used to illustrate the discussion will be drawn from an ESRC
study involving interviews with and observations of fifty one teachers and three
hundred 7-8 year old pupils in schools in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The
findings of this project, together with conclusions drawn from other recent
studies of primary schools, indicate that the focus on ‘achievement’ and
‘experience’ remain the same but the influence of neoliberalism has masked the
ways in which gender inequalities continue.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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