Global perspectives on gender and sexuality in education : raising awareness, fostering equity, advancing justice

• Other Authors: Brown, Elinor L. (Editor), Zong, Guichun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
• Series: International advances in education.
• Subjects: Sexism in education > Developing countries > Cross-cultural studies.; Educational equalization > Developing countries > Cross-cultural studies.; Education > Violence & Harassment.; Philosophy and theory of education.; Educational strategies and policy.; Violence and abuse in society.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806608850
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-796-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages) : illustrations

International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series that contributes to the body of inclusive educational policies and practices focused on: empowering society's most vulnerable groups; raising the ethical conscious...

Table of Contents:

• Series Introduction / Elinor L. Brown, Rhonda C. Craven, and George McLean. Volume Introduction / Elinor L. Brown and Guichun Zong
• Acknowledgements
• Part I. Promoting gender equity in access to schooling
• Chapter 1. Gender and schooling in lao pdr: The confluence of ethnic minority status, politics, and history / Leena Her
• Chapter 2. Kenya's initiatives to gender equity in basic education through international and national gender framework lenses / Anne Kanga, Salome Maina, and Lawrence Njoroge
• Chapter 3. Missing girls in schools: Gender inequality and educational disparities in rural China / Guang Yu Tan
• Chapter 4. Understanding the gambia success story in girls' education: Enabling factors and remaining challenges / Carly Manion and Haddy Njie
• Chapter 5. Educational rights of a girl child in India? Examining intersection between national curricular reform policy and education as a fundamental rights law / Geeta Verma and Vanashri Nargund-Joshi
• Part II. Reducing gender bias in K-12 curricula
• Chapter 6. From nanny of the maroons to portia simpson: Rebel women writing new Chapters in Caribbean history and politics / Marva McClean
• Chapter 7. Which half of the sky? A critical analysis of representation of women in new Chinese middle school history textbooks / Guichun Zong
• Chapter 8. Alippe, bukvar', and gender: A comparative analysis of early literacy textbooks in kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan / Rakhat Zholdoshalieva and Olga Mun
• Chapter 9. Classroom strategies for reducing gender inequities in history / Ginney Norton
• Chapter 10. Active democratic citizenship education: A curriculum for reducing gender bias and bullying / Bulent Tarman and Ahmet Doganay
• Part III. Teaching, learning, living in gender/sexually inclusive environments
• Chapter 11. Making sense of changes in education, social justice, and equity for women in China / Xiaoli Jiang
• Chapter 12. Constructions of gender among abantu cultures of southern Africa / Kayi Ntinda
• Chapter 13. Human trafficking on the web: Opportunities for education / Mojca Pajnik and Veronika Bajt
• Chapter 14. Queering multicultural education / Tinashe M. Dune, Elias Mpofu, David Evans, and Gerard Sullivan
• Chapter 15. Sexual orientation, gender, and inclusive education: The impact of learning environment and social support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and youth / Jacqueline Ullman, Gerard Sullivan, and Heidi Gilchrist
• About the contributors.