Whatever Happened To Equal Opportunities In Schools? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335203035 ISBN 13: 9780335203031

Publisher: Open University Press, 2000

Synopsis

There is considerable interest in the issue of equal opportunities, most of it directed at the underachievement of boys. In this book, Kate Myers and her team of contributors describe their involvement in national, local and school level equal opportunities projects that followed the Sex Discrimination Act and the establishment of the Equal Opportunities Commission in the mid-1970s. The main concern at that time was the under representation of girls in specific areas of the curriculum and work place. There was no national curriculum and it was common practice for girls and boys to take different subjects and be offered very different opportunities and experiences through the overt and covert school curriculum.

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Myers is Professor of Professional Development in Education at the University of Keele. Previously she was an Associate Director of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, and a freelance education consultant. Before going into higher education she was the Project Manager of the Schools Make A Difference (SMAD) project in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. She has previously been a pastoral head in an ILEA comprehensive school, ILEA co-ordinator of the Schools' Council's Sex Differentiation Project, an advisory teacher, director of the SCDE/EOC Equal Opportunities Project, and a senior inspector in the London borough of Ealing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0335203035
• ISBN 13: 9780335203031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Myers Kate