'A Revolution now absorbed': Girls in former Boys' Schools

Fuller, Mary, Dooley, Pauline and Ayles, Rosemary (1997) 'A Revolution now absorbed': Girls in former Boys' Schools. Educational Studies, 23 (3). pp. 405-415. doi:10.1080/0305569970230306

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Abstract

A number of elite boys’ schools in England have admitted girls for over 30 years, some thereby becoming mixed schools. In other schools, girls remain a very small minority. This paper focuses upon prospectuses from the latter type of school, arguing that prospectuses are particularly valuable as a basis for judging schools’ policies and practices in their own terms. The researchers ask questions about the nature of this form of ‘co-education’, particularly as it affects girls’ educational and social opportunities. On balance, the prospectuses paint a picture of boys’ schools which happen to have girls in them rather than of schools whose policies and practices have become genuinely co-educational.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Coeducation, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Males, Sex Bias, Single Sex Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, United Kingdom
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science
Research Priority Areas:	Society and Learning
Depositing User:	Susan Turner
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2015 10:05
Last Modified:	01 Sep 2023 15:49
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/1316

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