The authors' intention was to make student voices and perspectives on gender and power relationships more accessible to teachers.

Each chapter concludes with a series of focus group discussions that are designed to function as Professional Development workshops for teachers, translating the chapter contents into a form that can be applied to individual schools.

The book culminates with a chapter devoted to providing guidelines for schools on how to recast or reformulate their student-welfare policies in the light of our new understandings of gender and power issues in schools.

This book exposes the gaps and silences in current school-based policies and approaches, and makes a significant contribution to addressing social justice, difference and diversity issues in schools.