The influences of feminism and curriculum theory on teacher education are examined. Concepts of interest include empiricism, behaviorism, the role of sexism in teaching, the needs of research and theory, the involvement of self with education, the needs of society, and the importance of language. (JN)

Suitable for use in postsecondary courses in women's studies, curriculum theory, educational policy, or introductory educational administration, this book presents current scholarship on educational goals for women as well as the role and position of women in education. Twelve essays are presented in separate chapters. Chapter 1, an introduction…

Schools are socializing agents, acting in addition to the family to maintain gender bias. Historically, schools were intended to channel young men out of the family into the public sphere. It is in the schools that sex role separation occurs through the separation of spheres in which tasks and abilities are valued. (FG)

Interviews with 18 women enrolled in postsecondary education used a framework of misogyny to reinterpret barriers to their participation Resulting themes included women's role in maintaining the home as sanctuary, women needing constraint, and men's role as suppressors. Results suggest how a theory based in misogyny can explain obstacles to…

A study of women and education is centered around the questions of access to education, formal and informal educational arrangements, societal views of women's status and role, educational theory vis a vis women, women and the delivery of educational services, and the historiography of women in education. (MB)

This paper examines the issue of gender bias in education. Major components of the thesis include research in Vermont schools and secondary sources including the 1992 American Association of University Women report. The paper includes three main divisions. The first part addresses the paradox of trying to study gender, including some basic…

A study was conducted to examine the factors influencing undergraduate women's likelihood of persistence in their majors, based on Kanter's theory that members of the numerical minority in any group experience role entrapment and performance pressure as a result of their underrepresentation. Interview data were obtained from a stratified, random…

Jane Roland Martin's charge that a male cognitive perspective dominates educational philosophy is assessed. Martin's views on the ideal educated person (in writings of R. S. Peters and others), gender bias in the intellectual disciplines, the rationality learning theory, and self-alienation of educated women are analyzed. (PP)

Histories of education are seriously underdeveloped if the interplay of gender, race, and class is excluded. This article briefly outlines some of the theoretical work done by feminist historians and presents one example of how a feminist approach to conceptualizing and doing history can produce new insights. (IAH)