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Easey, Michael; Gleeson, Jim – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
The aim of the larger study, of which this paper is a part, is to investigate the decline in Year 10 male students' participation in senior calculus mathematics courses at an independent boys' school located in metropolitan Queensland. This paper draws on Sealey and Noyes's (2010) relevance framework to conduct document analysis and interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Calculus, Declining Enrollment
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Tormey, Roland; Gleeson, Jim – Gender and Education, 2012
The growing literature on the gendering of citizenship and citizenship education highlights that western notions of "citizenship" have often been framed in a way that implicitly excludes women. At the same time, insofar as feminist writers have addressed citizenship, they have tended to see it in largely local and national terms. While…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Feminism
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McCormack, Orla; Gleeson, Jim – Gender and Education, 2010
The "Exploring Masculinities" (EM) programme was piloted in 22 Irish single-sex boys' post-primary schools during the late 1990s. Following objections from some influential journalists and an organisation representing parents whose sons attended Catholic secondary schools, the Minister for Education and Science put the planned…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Masculinity, Males