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Gabrielle Ivinson is a lecturer in psychology in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. She is a social and developmental psychologist whose main interest is in the way knowledge is socially represented and constructed with a particular focus on gender and knowledge in education. Currently she is researching pedagogic strategies in secondary schools which involves ethnographic work in secondary school classrooms using various observation methods and in-depth interviews with students about undertaking tasks teachers set them in lessons. This collaborate work investigates boys’ and girls’ constructions of knowldge in science, English, Design and Technology, Drama and Art. She is writing a book with Patricia Murphy called 'Rethinking Single Sex Teaching: Engendering Critical Pedagogy' based on this empirical work. The book aims to make the interaction between gender and knowledge visible in ways that allow teachers and policy makers to recognise the implications of single sex teaching for students' achievement.

Selected Publications

Ivinson, G. and Duveen, D. (2006, forthcoming) ‘Children’s Recontextualisations of Pedagogy’, in R. Moore, M. Arnot, J. Muller, forthcoming edited collection following the Third International Bernstein Symposium. 

Ivinson, G. and Murphy, P. (forthcoming) Rethinking Single Sex Teaching: Engendering Critical Pedagogy. Berkshire, England: Mc-Graw Hill/Open University Press.

Ivinson, G. and Murphy, P. (2003) ‘Boys don’t write Romance: The construction of knowledge and social gender identities in English classrooms.’ Pedagogy, Culture and Society, Vol. 11 No. 1 pp 89-111.

Ivinson, G. (1998) ‘The Child's Construction of the Curriculum’, Papers on Social Representations: Threads and Discussions. Special Issue: The Development of Knowledge, Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 21-40.

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