EDucation & GEnder : : gender-specific education in different countries : historical aspects - current trends / / Oliver Holz, Fiona Shelton, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Holz, Oliver,; Shelton, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Münster : : Waxmann Verlag,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)

A study funded by the European Commission, relating to gender specific differences in learning achievements, shows among other things that whilst gender equality is a hot topic in many countries a general equality policy is not always advocated. More importantly, measures to reduce gender difference...

Table of Contents

• Foreword from the editors / Oliver Holz and Fiona Shelton
• Gender-fair education in Austria / Renate Seebauer and Johann Göttel
• Gender : a never-ending story / Luk Bosman
• The past, the present, and the future situation of gender specific education in the Czech Republic / Otakar Fleischmann
• Gender mainstreaming in Germany / Bernd Drägestein and Olaf Schwarze
• Gender research in Estonia against the background of traditional education / Meeli Väljaots
• Education for gender equality in Spain, a socio-cultural and historical analysis / Victor Pérez-Samaniego and Carmen Santamaría-García
• Gender-equitable education and training in Hungary / Erika Grossmann
• Girls ignite education / Kristof De Witte and Ferry Haan
• "Gender equality is no longer the big issue ..." / Herbert Zoglowek
• From history to the present : faces of gender in Poland / Malgorzata Jarecka-Z̓yluk and Justyna Ratkowska-Pasikowska
• Gender and education in Turkey / Nesrin Oruç Ertürk
• Upsetting the apple cart : overachieving girls, underachieving boys / Fiona Shelton
• Gender specific education in 12 European countries : a comparison / Kristof De Witte and Oliver Holz
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