This book illustrates how gender equity (and inequality) occurs in primary classrooms. It uses the findings of current research to provide teachers with recomme

What is it like being a boy or a girl? How do boys and girls learn to be men and women? How do families, schools and children’s peer groups influence the ways

How can we understand the educational disengagement of urban, working-class young people? What role do schools and education policies play in these young people

How can other subjects in the primary curriculum enhance the teaching and learning of primary science? The key argument in the book is that children’s learnin

"This is a book to own, read and re-read for its insights and which should then provoke us to act so that all children at school are able to enjoy and benefit f