Sue Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5399548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Answering Back
Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in school…
Systemic approaches to articulating and monitoring student outcomes
Are boys victims of feminism in schools? Some answers from Australia
This paper attends to some of the issues surrounding the controversial topic of the education of boys in Australian schools. It particularly focuses upon two questions: 'Are boys victims of feminism in schools?' and 'Are boys victims of their emotions?' In answering both questions, the authors draw from empirical studies that enquire into gender reform in schools and girls' and boys' responses to it. Generally, the paper makes the case for a peda…
Gender and the restructuring of work and vocational education in Australia
This paper discusses the restructuring of the world of work and education and training in Australia and its implications for women and girls. It outlines some of the ways in which government policies are restructuring the Australian workforce and workplaces and points to the promises this agenda makes and the possible price of these for women. It then focuses on the changes taking place in the post‐compulsory years of schooling, also in Australia…
Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’
This paper explores the work and effects of gender reform in schools through the use of feminist post‐structuralist theory. Focusing on the discourses designed to enhance girls’ post‐school options, it examines the ways in which teachers and students, particularly girls, write, read and rewrite these discourses and on the basis of this suggests some new directions for researching, theorising and practicing gender reform in schools. In particular,…
Feminist Single-sex Educational Strategies
Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’
This paper explores the work and effects of gender reform in schools through the use of feminist post‐structuralist theory. Focusing on the discourses designed to enhance girls’ post‐school options, it examines the ways in which teachers and students, particularly girls, write, read and rewrite these discourses and on the basis of this suggests some new directions for researching, theorising and practicing gender reform in schools. In particular,…
Are boys victims of feminism in schools? Some answers from Australia
This paper attends to some of the issues surrounding the controversial topic of the education of boys in Australian schools. It particularly focuses upon two questions: 'Are boys victims of feminism in schools?' and 'Are boys victims of their emotions?' In answering both questions, the authors draw from empirical studies that enquire into gender reform in schools and girls' and boys' responses to it. Generally, the paper makes the case for a peda…
Gender and the restructuring of work and vocational education in Australia
This paper discusses the restructuring of the world of work and education and training in Australia and its implications for women and girls. It outlines some of the ways in which government policies are restructuring the Australian workforce and workplaces and points to the promises this agenda makes and the possible price of these for women. It then focuses on the changes taking place in the post‐compulsory years of schooling, also in Australia…
Feminist Single-sex Educational Strategies
Feminist Single-sex Educational Strategies
Making ‘Hope Practical’ Rather than ‘Despair Convincing’
This paper explores the work and effects of gender reform in schools through the use of feminist post‐structuralist theory. Focusing on the discourses designed to enhance girls’ post‐school options, it examines the ways in which teachers and students, particularly girls, write, read and rewrite these discourses and on the basis of this suggests some new directions for researching, theorising and practicing gender reform in schools. In particular,…
Gender and the restructuring of work and vocational education in Australia
This paper discusses the restructuring of the world of work and education and training in Australia and its implications for women and girls. It outlines some of the ways in which government policies are restructuring the Australian workforce and workplaces and points to the promises this agenda makes and the possible price of these for women. It then focuses on the changes taking place in the post‐compulsory years of schooling, also in Australia…
Systemic approaches to articulating and monitoring student outcomes
Are boys victims of feminism in schools? Some answers from Australia
This paper attends to some of the issues surrounding the controversial topic of the education of boys in Australian schools. It particularly focuses upon two questions: 'Are boys victims of feminism in schools?' and 'Are boys victims of their emotions?' In answering both questions, the authors draw from empirical studies that enquire into gender reform in schools and girls' and boys' responses to it. Generally, the paper makes the case for a peda…
Answering Back
Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in school…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works)