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The Significance of Intercultural Understanding in the English Modern Foreign Languages Curriculum: A Pupil Perspective
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Peiser, Gillian; Jones, Marion – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This study has been prompted by a concern that the term intercultural understanding (IU) has appeared in English curriculum policy texts in order to address macro issues with scant pedagogical attention to its effective implementation at the micro level in the modern foreign languages (MFL) classroom. The article investigates pupils' perceptions…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Modern Language Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Headteacher Career Paths in UK Independent Secondary Coeducational Schools: Gender Issues
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McLay, Margaret – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2008
This article presents evidence of the similarities and differences in the career paths of men and women who have achieved headships in UK independent coeducational schools. The research comprised a pilot study of interviews with nine female headteachers and a questionnaire sent to male and female heads of coeducational secondary schools. It…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Career Development, Women Administrators
Effect of Single-Sex Education on Progress in GCSE
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Malacova, Eva – Oxford Review of Education, 2007
Multilevel modeling was carried out on national value-added data to study the effects of single-sex education on the progress of pupils from 2002 Key Stage 3 to 2004 GCSE. The analysis suggests that pupils in a selective environment achieve higher progress in single-sex schools; however, the advantage of single-sex schooling seems to decrease with…
Descriptors: Students, Single Sex Schools, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness
Fighting the "Damnable Triumph" of Feminism: Battles between Teachers' Unions in Interwar Britain
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Wilson, Dolly Smith – Gender and Education, 2007
The interwar decades saw a bitter recruiting war between the NUT (National Union of Teachers), the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT), and the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS), which like the NUWT broke away from the NUT in the early 1920s. The NAS opposed the NUT's official policy shift to support equal pay for male and female…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Power Structure, Unions
"Ye've Got to 'Ave Balls to Play This Game Sir!" Boys, Peers and Fears: The Negative Influence of School-Based "Cultural Accomplices" in Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities
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Smith, Jeffrey – Gender and Education, 2007
The ongoing moral panic surrounding adolescent boys continues to cause concern, proving pivotal in popular discourses centring on the "problem of youth". Drawing on ethnographic data from a large co-educational secondary school, this paper illustrates how school outcomes are adversely affected by working class boys' investments in peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Coeducation, Outcomes of Education
Would Harry and Hermione Have Done Better in Single-Sex Classes? A Review of Single-Sex Teaching in Coeducational Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom
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Younger, Michael Robert; Warrington, Molly – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
The gender agenda in many North American, Western European, and Australasian countries has undergone a "boy turn" in the past decade amid growing concerns about boys' apparent "underachievement" relative to girls. One aspect of this turn has been the resurrection of interest in single-sex classes in coeducational public state…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries