Brave New World? Aspects of Office Skills Training in a College of Further Education.

Black, Edie

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Publication Date: 1989

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Brave New World? Aspects of Office Skills Training in a College of Further Education.

Black, Edie

Gender and Education, v1 n2 p127-37 1989

Reviews an ethnographic study of female students in full-time secretarial courses in a college of non-advanced further education (NAFE) in England. The study explores the role of schooling in the transmission and maintenance of social inequalities and finds that classroom life encourages student conformity. (AF)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Communication, Conformity, Educational Sociology, Ethnography, Females, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Office Occupations Education, Sex Discrimination, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Social Reinforcement, Teacher Student Relationship

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)

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