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Wohlwend, Karen E.; Medina, Carmen L. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
In this conceptual piece, we examine media as a nexus of a traditional schooling pedagogy and performance pedagogy to make visible how their overlapping elements produce media's pervasive educative force but also to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of using media in educational contexts. Nexus analysis examines a fashion makeover…
Descriptors: Television, Popular Culture, Mass Media Role, Clothing
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Ricciardelli, Rosemary; White, Philip – Qualitative Report, 2011
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Self Concept, Human Body
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Vincent, Carol; Braun, Annette – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
This paper reports on research from a small-scale project investigating the vocational training of students in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in England. We draw on data from interviews with 42 students and five tutors in order to explore the students' understandings of professionalism in early years. In the paper, we discuss first, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Care Occupations, Vocational Education