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Ben Johnson – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
Since the repeal of Section 28 in 2003, research and policy reform has explored how to reduce homo/bi and transphobia to make schools more LGBTQ+ inclusive places. However, heteronormativity continues to manifest in increasingly subtle ways. This article argues that teachers must remain vigilant towards the 'Panopticon of Heteronormativity' which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Elementary School Teachers
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Kim A. Johnston; Anne B. Lane – Student Success, 2023
Generalised moves to online and more flexible delivery modes of teaching have challenged the perceptions and expectations of university educators worldwide. Congruence around educator role expectations, held by both the educator and their students, therefore is central to educator wellbeing, and by default, student success in a changing university…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Welfare, Teacher Role, Expectation
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Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
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Leonard, Matt – Educational & Child Psychology, 2022
Aims: The negative school experiences of transgender students are well documented, but so far little research has explored what is going well for transgender students in school. This research highlights some of the positive school experiences of transgender youth in order to promote positive change. Methods: A qualitative, interpretive approach…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Student Experience, Educational Environment, Teacher Role
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Smithers, Kathleen; Harris, Jess; Goff, Mhorag; Spina, Nerida; Bailey, Simon – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Neoliberal reform of the university sector has resulted in increasing numbers of academics employed on casual or fixed-term contracts. While there is an emergent body of literature on issues of precarity in the academy, relatively little attention has been paid to the roles and responsibilities of those tenured academics who employ and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Tenure, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Bacova, Daniela; Turner, Amanda – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unexpected challenges to the lives and professional practice of teachers regardless of their institutional context. Our understanding of how teachers viewed their impact on their perceived sense of professional identity is largely unexplored, especially concerning teachers working in the post-compulsory sector. This…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Work Environment, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19
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Walkerdine, Valerie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Colleges, Selective Admission, Social Class
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Ott, Lisa – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2015
This research review provides a synthesis of articles that analyse the impact of the educational system on families with special needs children and the potential ways that these families can be empowered and equipped. The articles selected focus on research participants and schools found in North America and Great Britain, in order to give the…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Stress Variables, Disabilities, Stress Management
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Bradbury-Jones, Caroline; Molloy, Eleanor; Clark, Maria; Ward, Nicki – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Research into higher education has shown that for those who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and/or Queer (LGBTQ), universities are places where both direct and indirect discrimination is experienced. This paper reports the findings from a systematic search and review on gender and sexual diversity in professional practice placements.…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Student Diversity, Social Bias, Teacher Role
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Elwick, Alex; Jerome, Lee – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
Since the introduction of the Prevent duty across the UK, schools have had to balance the need to fulfil their responsibilities under the duty -- often understood to include monitoring and surveillance -- with their ultimate purpose to educate their students. This positions teachers within a particular set of tensions about their own beliefs about…
Descriptors: School Safety, Prevention, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Role
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Guo, Jiaqi; Liu, Yongcan – Teacher Development, 2020
This study investigated the impact that the experience of living and teaching in the United Kingdom (UK) had on the belief development of three native Chinese language teachers. The study used a multifaceted approach to analyse the teachers as social beings and their belief development beyond the confines of the classroom. The analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Native Language, Chinese
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Islam, Nurul; Beer, Martin; Slack, Frances – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
Over the last two decades the use of E-learning technology increased to such an extent that the role of the traditional academic has been forced to change. Focusing on academics' views, this study examines their interactions in the E-learning environment and whether online learning applications have increased academic workload (Eynon, 2005;…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Teacher Role
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Myers, Fran; Collins, Hilary; Glover, Hayley; Watson, Mor – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper demonstrates the importance of considering lived experiences of adjunct teaching staff during the introduction of automated student messaging services in a UK Business School. With cost-orientated moves to expanding online provision through emergent technologies and the growth of alternative HE strategies, traditional group-orientated…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Tutors, Business Schools, Foreign Countries
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Little, Sabine; Golledge, Michelle; Agarwalla, Hina; Griffiths, Ben; McCamlie, Danny – London Review of Education, 2019
The globally mobile teacher is a relatively new concept. This article draws on the experiences of seven teachers teaching in international contexts, who are currently undertaking an iPGCE (International Postgraduate Certificate in Education) -- four of whom are co-authors of this article. Drawing on original data from written narratives and online…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Faculty Mobility, Educational Needs, Faculty Development
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Harris, Pete; Haywood, Chris; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This article explores late modern Black and Muslim young men's and women's experiences of higher education. Carrying out qualitative research with 14 male and female young people, these students claimed that their Youth and Community Work course at their university made available an alternative representational space, enabling them to develop a…
Descriptors: Blacks, Muslims, College Students, Student Experience
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