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The Nature of Institutional Heteronormativity in Primary Schools and Practice-Based Responses
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DePalma, Renee; Atkinson, Elizabeth – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
Concern for school-based homophobia is increasing, yet there is a tendency to focus on individual incidents of homophobic bullying rather than the cultural and institutional factors supporting them. We analyse ways in which institutional heteronormativity operates in primary schools and report results from our research in UK schools that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Homosexuality, Participatory Research, Discourse Analysis
Training Confident Primary Modern Foreign Language Teachers in England: An Investigation into Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of their Subject Knowledge
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Woodgate-Jones, Alexandra – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The National Languages Strategy, published in the UK in 2002 offers all primary school children an entitlement to learn a Modern Foreign Language (MFL) by 2010. The supply of adequately trained teachers is one of the key determinants of the success of this initiative. This paper presents findings from a study involving 18 teacher education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Second Languages, Focus Groups
"Where Are the Children?" Personal Integrity and Reflective Teaching Portfolios
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Berrill, Deborah P.; Whalen, Catherine – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study chronicles a 2-year school wide portfolio initiative in a British elementary school, teacher resistance to the initiative, and factors that contributed to acceptance of the portfolio initiative. Critical components to teacher engagement in this context included teacher ownership of the process and product, a child-centred focus to the…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Teaching Methods, Integrity, Reflective Teaching