Building Gender Fairness in Schools - Softcover

Stitt, Professor Beverly; Erekson, Thomas L.; Hofstrand Ph.D., Richard K.; Loepp Ph.D., Dr. Franzie L.; Minor Ph.D., Dr. Carole; Perreault Ph.D., Dr. Heidi R.; Savage Ph.D., Dr. John

9780809314744: Building Gender Fairness in Schools

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809314746 ISBN 13: 9780809314744

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988

Developed by the Illinois Building Fairness Resource Center under the direction of Beverly A. Stitt, this book addresses these omissions in teacher education textbooks. Each of the units has been field tested with pre-service and in-service teachers and together will help educators—those preparing to be teachers and those already teaching—to identify gender bias and eliminate it from their classrooms.

The book helps educators to assess their own levels of gender bias and to determine the effects of such bias on students and society, also providing activities to retrain for its elimination. The contents are divided into two sections—readings and units of instruction. Each of the eleven units addresses a competency to be mastered. Although these units follow a logical sequence, each is sufficiently self-contained to permit selective use within an existing course. Research indicates that gender bias in classroom interaction inhibits student achievement. It also indicates that training to eliminate gender bias results in overall better teaching—equity in teaching seems to promote excellence as well.

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Review:

"Not a single text provides future teachers with curricular resources and instructional strategies to counteract sexism in the classroom and its harmful impact on students."—Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Beyond Pictures and Pronouns: Sexism in Teacher Education Textbooks

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