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Attitudes toward LGB Peers and Students' Citizenship Competences: Peer Education for a Double Purpose?
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Kroneman, Marieke; Admiraal, Wilfried; Kleistra, Yvonne – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
Peer education regarding respect for LGB individuals can be understood as citizenship education with a specific content. Students who participate in an intervention to increase respect for sexual and gender minorities may also increase their general citizenship competences. Also, participation in such an intervention may strengthen students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Attitudes, Citizenship, Peer Teaching
The Meanings, Risk Factors and Consequences of Religious Extremism: The Perceptions of Islamic Education Teachers from Israel
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Saada, Najwan – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
This multiple case study examines the attitudes of 14 Islamic education teachers from Israel towards the meaning, causes and consequences of religious extremism among students in their Arab and Muslim-majority middle and high schools. These teachers define religious extremism as belief in absolute religious truth, inflexibility in religious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Islam, Religious Factors
One Assigned-Female-at-Birth Male Student's Journey through School to Understanding His Identity
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Bartone, Michael D. – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2018
This article explores schooling experiences of James, assigned-female-at-birth (AFAB) male, with a focus on his Catholic K-8 experience. James was caught in the tensions of school and home: Catholic school reinforcing traditional norms of gender and a family that bucked these norms. At school James learned about the body and sex, never feeling…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, Social Attitudes
Stepping out of Our Comfort Zones: Pre-Service Teachers' Responses to a Critical Analysis of Gender/Power Relations in Sexuality Education
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Harrison, Lyn; Ollis, Debbie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
This paper discusses pre-service teachers' responses to a critical analysis of gender/power relations using examples from a final assessment for an intensive elective unit called Teaching Sexuality in the Middle Years. This unit critically examines gender/power relations, the production of difference, heteronormativity and pleasure and desire,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Sexuality, Sex Education
Academic Expectations of Australian Students from Aboriginal, Asian and Anglo Backgrounds: Perspectives of Teachers, Trainee-Teachers and Students
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Dandy, Justine; Durkin, Kevin; Barber, Bonnie L.; Houghton, Stephen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
There are ethnic group differences in academic achievement among Australian students, with Aboriginal students performing substantially below and Asian students above their peers. One factor that may contribute to these effects is societal stereotypes of Australian Asian and Aboriginal students, which may bias teachers' evaluations and influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Educational Objectives, Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement
Physical Education Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Teaching for Social Justice: The Impact of Teaching Kids' Tennis to Youth Living in Poverty
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Kreider, Carri Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this action research study was to better understand and improve my efforts as a Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) instructor to transform the attitudes, beliefs, and understandings of preservice teachers (PSTs) with regard to issues of social justice, specifically by achieving equality by providing opportunities and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers