"Challenging Homophobia: Teaching about Sexual Diversity is a must-read text for any instructor, throughout the world, who is interested in eradicating homophobia in their school system. The book includes a plethora of resources, from grassroots organizations and sexual diversity curriculums to websites and documentaries. The final section of the book also highlights seven examples of best practices that can be taught to students in a variety of grade levels."
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- Feminist Review

"This is a fascinating introduction to an important new aspect of early childhood education. Summing Up: Highly recommended."

- Choice

“With the steamroller of...education policies flattening teachers, students and children, we need this book to stop the machine in its tracks.”

- Michael Rosen, children's author and broadcaster

"In this new study, English education researcher Hazel R. Wright offers a thorough analysis of the experiences and perspectives of adult women students enrolled in a childcare diploma program. In a policy context very similar to that of the United States—with political leaders increasingly emphasizing education, primarily as vocational training to remedy an ailing economy—Wright examines what drives women to pursue credentials in caring for young children, and how they interpret their experiences as students, mothers, and professional caretakers. Through open-ended discussions and survey responses, study participants raise a series of themes that speak to the gendered nature of the childcare workforce, of underpaid labor, and of caretaking roles in work and life. Interpreting the different elements of women’s lives as inseparable, Wright posits that respondents pursue further education in childcare in an effort to holistically combine rather than separate and balance competing priorities. Wright applies Amartya Sen’s famous capability approach as a framework for considering interviewees’ experiences, and argues that although their choices conform to gendered expectations, they are freely made rather than societally predetermined. She advocates for policy options that allow women to choose what best serves their personal interests from a range of options, including in education, where respondents valued both vocational and liberal approaches. Wright’s analysis is a strong comparative narrative for American readers facing parallel cultural challenges in similarly gendered circumstances."
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