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Scholes, Laura – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
A seminal body of work emerged in the 1980s recognising reading as a site for gender and class identity work. However, understandings around working-class girls' reading identities are invisible in the current Australian education policy space where gender equalities with respect to curriculum subjects have disappeared. This paper draws on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Females, Peer Acceptance
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Bhana, Deevia; Nzimakwe, Thokozani; Nzimakwe, Phumzile – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Understanding the ways in which young boys and girls give meaning to gender and sexuality is vital, and is especially significant in the light of South Africa's commitment to gender equality. Yet the, gendered cultures of young children in the early years of South African primary schools remains a, marginal concern in debate, research and…
Descriptors: Working Class, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity
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Fleisch, Brahm; Shindler, Jennifer – Comparative Education, 2009
Using data collected by the Birth-to-Twenty child cohort study in urban South Africa, this paper describes the patterns of schooling of a population of children born in the Greater Johannesburg area in April to June 1990. This paper examines the patterns of initial enrolment in Grade 1, transitions through grades, and trends in primary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Equal Education, Gender Differences
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Meteyer, Karen B.; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen – Family Relations, 2009
We explore dyadic parenting styles and their association with first-grade children's externalizing behavior symptoms in a sample of 85 working-class, dual-earner families. Cluster analysis is used to create a typology of parenting types, reflecting the parental warmth, overreactivity, and laxness of both mothers and fathers in two-parent families.…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Multivariate Analysis
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Davis, Pauline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article reports on case study research of seven- and eight-year-old children's discourse about reading. The case studies were selected to provide classrooms in contrasting neighbourhoods within a white "working class" town in the North of England. Mixed methods were employed, but primarily the case studies were ethnographic in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Middle Class, Case Studies
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Bhana, Deevia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2007
Drawing from data collected during interviews with grade 2 teachers who work in a black working-class township school, this paper explores the meanings that teachers attach to HIV and AIDS education. It is argued that the relationship of many teachers to the subject of HIV and AIDS is inscribed within regulatory forces based on the notion of…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Sexuality