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Although the academic success of girls has greatly improved in recent years, children 's classroom interactions remain strongly gendered. This book investigates primary school children 's constructions of gender in relation to their own lives and the issue of adult occupations. Becky Francis marries the lively data she collected from dialogue and role-play by children in primary schools with a new theoretical framework combining aspects of pos...

Academic mothers are likely to be middle class, have access to some form of child care, live in a democracy and have some legal rights and protections. This book reveals that there are freedoms such women still cannot achieve. It breaks methodological ground for qualitative researchers, revealing the intimacy between methodological decisions.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms education rights that include learning about the world and the rights for all children to expression and to information. This book focuses on the rights and responsibilities of children as global citizens and what teachers can do to present and promote them in their classrooms. It combines curriculum analysis with practical experience, particularly of children learning from and with children...

The early experiences children have with science are crucial in determining later attitudes to learning about it.Here is an excellent introduction for early childhood teachers in training, which also helps practicing teachers to make science accessible and interesting to young children. It provides strategies to help maintain the impetus all through primary school given by good science teaching in the early years and includes suggestions for c...

Presents an overview of the history of UK initiatives designed to encourage girls and women into non-traditional fields such as science, engineering, technology, construction, and the trades. This title explores the aims and frameworks of the initiatives, examines the practices developed, and comments on the mixed results achieved.

Describes what the teachers of Traveller children do and how they do it. This book also reveals how they feel about their work and their relationships with the Traveller families and the wide range of professionals their work involves.

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Effective and inspirational pedagogy has been achieved through identity texts in multilingual school contexts, engaging students around the world. This book shows how identity texts are used.

Taking a new way of thinking about literacy, the book argues that it is not so much the children's experiences that count, but rather what they make of them - with support from adults and peers. It penetrates the private worlds of literacy learning in the families of six young children from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

How is the nature of childhood changing? What challenges do children face as they grow up? This book enriches our understanding of what it means to be a child today. It examines: the impact of new technologies, policy, and early education, poverty, changing family circumstances and living in care, and case studies of childhood in certain African countries, the UK, the US, Australia, Western and Eastern Europe.The contributors come from across ...

The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Ind...