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Supporting Maori Learners through Bicultural Teacher-Parent Partnerships Using the PATI Model
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Karyn Saunders – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
For partnerships between non-Maori teachers and Maori parents in English-medium education to productively support student learning, parents must first associate positive feelings with three layered interaction types involving their child's teacher. The first interaction type is the teacher with their teacher self; the second is teacher-student…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Parents, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Students' Engagement with Alternative Discursive Construction of Menstruation
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Agnew, Shire; Gunn, Alexandra C. – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objectives: Understandings of menstruation, including those within teaching, continue to draw on dominant discourses that construct menstruation as shameful and secret. This study trialled a new pedagogical approach to menstruation education that offered opportunities to engage with and mobilise alternative discourses. Design: Teachers of students…
Descriptors: Females, Physiology, Social Attitudes, Preadolescents
The Influence of "Frozen": Young Children, Performative Gender, and Popular Culture
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Kelly-Ware, Janette – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
Popular culture is omnipresent in the lives of young children. The mass media, movies, television, and product advertising all carry messages about acceptability and desirability, deeply entangled with traditional stereotypes about gender, sex-roles, and sexuality. The intersection of discourses of media, gender, and performativity and their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Popular Culture, Mass Media Effects, Social Attitudes
Homophobia, Transphobia, Young People and the Question of Responsibility
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Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Sanjakdar, Fida; Allen, Louisa; Quinlivan, Kathleen; Bromdal, Annette – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Young people may face conflicting and confusing messages about what it means to respond well in relation to homophobia and transphobia. Consequently, we ask--What might it mean to respond well to homophobia and transphobia? This strategy, inspired by Anika Thiem and Judith Butler, is recognition of the ambivalent conditions which structure…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
So What Exactly Do You Want? What Principals Mean when They Say "Male Role Model"
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Cushman, Penni – Gender and Education, 2008
The need for more male role models in young boys' lives is one of the main reasons underpinning the call for more male teachers in primary schools. However, the exact responsibilities and attributes associated with the term "male role model" have yet to be clearly established. The purpose of this survey of 250 New Zealand primary school…
Descriptors: Role Models, Foreign Countries, Males, Principals
Creating Schools of Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of War and Violence
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Cavanagh, Tom – Journal of School Violence, 2009
In this post 9/11 era Western cultures are focusing on values that support war and violence. In this article an ethnographer explores the impact of these values on schools. These values, seen through the lens of restorative justice, include: (a) punishment, (b) adversarial relationships, (c) monopolization of power, (d) problemization and…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Peace, Juvenile Justice, Social Attitudes