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Matthew Round – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Teachers in Lady Agatha's Boarding School (Lady Agatha's) find teaching Sex and Relationships Education (RSE) uncomfortable. This paper investigates one aspect of the discomfort that they feel, namely the impact RSE has on their professional status as teachers. I use focus group data to reflect on the professional and personal location of teachers…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Sex Education, Professionalism, Reputation
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Ekaette, Samuel Okpon; Ekpenyong, John A.; Owan, Valentine Joseph – Pedagogical Research, 2019
The study investigated school characteristics and enrolment trend in upper basic schools in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria from 2008-2016. Two research questions were answered while two null hypotheses were also tested. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Census technique was adopted in selecting all the 227 public upper basic schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment Trends, Junior High Schools
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Cary, Michael S. – Teachers College Record, 1991
Describes Deerfield Academy's recent process of changing from a single-sex to a coeducational school. Though some students and teachers resisted the change, most adapted well and enjoyed the new atmosphere. The school community believes that Deerfield should not settle for anything less than a full coeducational status. (SM)
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Coeducation, Educational Change, Equal Education
White, Mathew A. – International Education Journal, 2004
Subjugated to the anachronistic rhetoric of nineteenth century literature, Australian boarding schools are habitually depicted as the remanence of a pre-colonial era. These images continue to be dominated by the paradigm of cruelty popularised by Tom Brown's School Days. This paper analyses the aspirations and attitudes of a study group of…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Student Attitudes, Boarding Schools, Cultural Pluralism