Gender and early learning environments

• Other Authors: Irby, Beverly J. (Editor), Brown, Genevieve (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
• Series: Research on women and education.
• Subjects: Sex differences in education.; Gender identity in education.; Early childhood education > Social aspects.; Girls > Education (Early childhood); Education > Student Life & Student Affairs.; Pre-school and kindergarten.; Educational administration and organization.; Student life.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616336
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-329-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 184 pages)

The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments. Finding after the publication of Gender and Schooling in the Early Years, the second book in the series, that there was and is a pau...

Table of Contents:

• Their play is different: Power, language, and gender socialization at a waldorf daycare / Marguerite Wilson
• Girls and boys, work and play: Gendered meanings and participation in early childhood education / Sue Nichols
• Young children's gendered positioning and emotional scenarios in play narratives / Samara Madrid, Laurie Katz
• May I still call you honey-man: One child, vacillating gender, and the experiences of home, school, and community / Robin Fox
• On being a boy or a girl in mrs. Sanders' first grade classroom / Paula P. Guerra Lombardi, Andrea S. Foster
• How South African teachers construct gender in the early years of schooling / Deevia Bhana
• Race, space, and girls' interactions on urban playgrounds / Eleanor R. Spindler
• A hallmark moment? / Barbara E. Polnick, Gene Polnick
• Child abuse: Traumatic influences and treatment / Sandra Johnson
• Teacher education students' perceptions of gender differences in children / Linda M. Creighton.