Groundbreaking volume provides positive strategies for eliminating gender bias in middle school and high school classrooms.

Invaluable resource for teachers that suggests strategies for successfully internationalizing the curriculum.

Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.

A focus on the state of women's studies in two-year community colleges, presenting the results of two curriculum transformation projects that took place at over twenty community colleges.

Activists and educators explore ways to strengthen the ties between the classroom and the world.

From an interview with the wrongly-accused Betty Tyson to an analysis of "Prime Suspect 2," this issue explores the increasing visibility of women--as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals--in the field of criminal justices studies. Topics include mandatory sentencing laws, the war on drugs, the motivations of Andrea Yates, and the then-recent HIV epidemic facing incarcerated women. Creative works and resources for teaching and learning more about women and crime are included.

A timely and vital issue of this leading journal examines the impact of new technologies on the lives of women.

This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education – a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a fundamental goal. In considering how to organize the Handbook, the editors searched out definitions of social studies, statements of purpose, and themes that linked (or divided) theory, research, and practices and established criteria for topics to include. Each chapter meets one or more of these criteria: research activity since the last Handbook that warrants a new analysis, topics representing a major emphasis in the NCSS standards, and topics reflecting an emerging or reemerging field within the social studies. The volume is organized around seven themes: Change and Continuity in Social Studies Civic Competence in Pluralist Democracies Social Justice and the Social Studies Assessment and Accountability Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines Information Ecologies: Technology in the Social Studies Teacher Preparation and Development The Handbook of Research in Social Studies is a must-have resource for all beginning and experienced researchers in the field.

The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.