Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been acknowledged. Innovatively combining approaches in the analysis of classroom discourse this book offers rich empirical findings as well as being theoretically interesting and valuable.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Language, Gender, Sexuality and Schooling Data and Methods From Form to Function: Structural-Functional Discourse Analysis From Structural to Post-structural: Critical Feminist Approaches Beyond Gender Identity: Queer Theory Moving Forward? Some Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index