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Article: A SPECIAL SECTION ON GENDER EQUITY: Something Is Missing from Teacher Education: Attention to Two Genders.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Assumptions about gender roles continue to limit children's aspirations and achievements. If we are to overcome those limitations, Ms. Sanders argues, gender equity must become a standard part of the curriculum of preservice teacher education.
EDUCATORS may have noticed the recent disputes between Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, and such advocates of gender equity as David Sadker and Carol Gilligan about whether boys or girls are being more shortchanged in the classroom. If it achieves nothing else, the debate should remind us that we need to talk about the educational well-being of both sexes, not either one separately.
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