Equity in the classroom : towards effective pedagogy for girls and boys / edited by Patricia F. Murphy and Caroline V. Gipps.

Papers from an international colloquium entitled "Is there a pedagogy for girls?" organized by Unesco held in 1995.

Contents:

Pedagogy and gender. Defining pedagogy / Patricia Murphy --
A girls' pedagogy "in relationship" / Jane Roland Martin --
Citizenship, difference and marginality in schools : spatial and embodied aspects of gender construction / Tuula Gordon --
The pedagogy of difference : an African perspective / Sheila Parvyn Wamahiu --
Gender identity and cognitive style / John Head. Differential learning and performance. Scholarship, gender and mathematics / Elizabeth Fennema --
Girls and information technology / Karen Littleton --
Research on English and the teaching of girls / Janet White --Girls' achievement in science and technology : implications for pedagogy / Jan Harding --
Is there a space for the achieving girl / Michèle Cohen --
A socially just pedagogy for the teaching of mathematics / Leone Burton. Interventions. Redefining achievement / Gaell M. Hildebrand --
Single-sex settings : pedagogies for girls and boys in Danish schools / Anne-Mette Kruse --
Intervention programs in science and engineering education : from secondary schools to universities / Sue Lewis --
How do we get educators to teach gender equity? / Jo Sanders --
Gender, teachers, and changing practices : voices from schools / Liz Wyatt, Jo Whitehead and Christina Hart --
The emotional dimensions of feminist pedagogy in schools / Jane Kenway [and others] --
Review and conclusions : a pedagogy or a range of pedagogic strategies? / Caroline Gipps

Includes bibliographical references and index.