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Description:This dissertation, "Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong" by Po-chi, Gene, Kwok, 郭寶芝, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of Thesis Entitled Doing Gender: A Case Study of a Coeducational Secondary School in Hong Kong Submitted by Kwok Po Chi, Gene For the Degree of Master of Philosophy At The University of Hong Kong In August 2003 This study investigates the relationships between gender and education. Students are exposed to various discourses and discursive messages implied in the school arrangements, practices and interactions. These messages may affect students' perceptions of life and behaviors. This study applies the method of in-dept interviews to examine the ways in which form 3 and form 4 students and teachers in a band 1 coeducational secondary school view their life and behave when exposed to the discourses and discursive messages by using students' reasoning for their subject choice as a starting point. This study first shows how students draw on some discourses and discursive elements when accounting for their choice of stream. Some of them are easily articulated by the students but most of them are subtle; some of them are strongly held and some of them are weakly held by the students. There are tensions and contradictions among various discourses and discursive elements. Students deploy various strategies, interpret the discourses and discursive messages and resolve the conflicts in their own way when making their subject choice. The discourses and discursive elements are implied in the school orders, practices and interactions. Not only can they shape students' choice of stream but they can also influence their behaviors and views on life. By studying two classes (one form 3 class and one form 4 class) in the school, this study illustrates how the school and students construct gender identities and reveals the discourses and discursive messages implied in the gender-making process. It is found that the school and students construct various types of masculinity and femininity. However, different kinds of gender identities have different prestige and power. The rewarding of the bravado and academically competent form of masculinity and the femininity of academic competence and responsibility which, along with the sanctioning of the quiet and passive type of masculinity and the femininity as noisy, immature and flirting with the opposite sex, turn the school into a largely male-dominated domain. Nonetheless, the rooms available in the school for girls and boys to negotiate their gender identities make changes to the present gender relations possible. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2775625 Subjects: Sex differences in education - China - Hong Kong - Case studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong. To get started finding Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This dissertation, "Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong" by Po-chi, Gene, Kwok, 郭寶芝, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of Thesis Entitled Doing Gender: A Case Study of a Coeducational Secondary School in Hong Kong Submitted by Kwok Po Chi, Gene For the Degree of Master of Philosophy At The University of Hong Kong In August 2003 This study investigates the relationships between gender and education. Students are exposed to various discourses and discursive messages implied in the school arrangements, practices and interactions. These messages may affect students' perceptions of life and behaviors. This study applies the method of in-dept interviews to examine the ways in which form 3 and form 4 students and teachers in a band 1 coeducational secondary school view their life and behave when exposed to the discourses and discursive messages by using students' reasoning for their subject choice as a starting point. This study first shows how students draw on some discourses and discursive elements when accounting for their choice of stream. Some of them are easily articulated by the students but most of them are subtle; some of them are strongly held and some of them are weakly held by the students. There are tensions and contradictions among various discourses and discursive elements. Students deploy various strategies, interpret the discourses and discursive messages and resolve the conflicts in their own way when making their subject choice. The discourses and discursive elements are implied in the school orders, practices and interactions. Not only can they shape students' choice of stream but they can also influence their behaviors and views on life. By studying two classes (one form 3 class and one form 4 class) in the school, this study illustrates how the school and students construct gender identities and reveals the discourses and discursive messages implied in the gender-making process. It is found that the school and students construct various types of masculinity and femininity. However, different kinds of gender identities have different prestige and power. The rewarding of the bravado and academically competent form of masculinity and the femininity of academic competence and responsibility which, along with the sanctioning of the quiet and passive type of masculinity and the femininity as noisy, immature and flirting with the opposite sex, turn the school into a largely male-dominated domain. Nonetheless, the rooms available in the school for girls and boys to negotiate their gender identities make changes to the present gender relations possible. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2775625 Subjects: Sex differences in education - China - Hong Kong - Case studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong. To get started finding Doing Gender: a Case Study of a Coeducationalsecondary School in Hong Kong, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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