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McKnight, Lucinda – English in Australia, 2015
This article draws from a doctoral study of how female teachers design English curriculum around girls' popular culture in a contemporary coeducational secondary setting and focuses on how English teachers contemplate the study of texts in the space of school-based curriculum planning. The article presents an argument for reflexivity around how we…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Popular Culture, Curriculum Design
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Hill, Joanne – Gender and Education, 2015
Within physical education and sport, girls must navigate discourses of valued athletic and gendered bodies that marginalise or "other" non-normative performances through systems of surveillance and punishment. The purpose of this paper is to share girls' perspectives on how these discourses affected their gender performances and activity…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
Liu, Woon Chia; Wang, Chee Keng John – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2005
Many studies support the existence of a significant decline in students' academic self-concept from early to mid-adolescence. In comparison, the findings on gender effect are less conclusive. This study aimed to determine whether there is any grade or gender effect on adolescents' academic self-concept in the Singapore context. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Self Concept, Case Studies
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Steinback, Myriam; Gwizdala, Joyce – School Science and Mathematics, 1995
Student attitudes toward mathematics were investigated before (n=353 females) and after (n=697 males and females) two single-sex, college preparatory, parochial high schools merged. Both sexes reported "teachers consider the boys smarter." Males perceived themselves as smarter, and females' self-confidence decreased after the merger. (23…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Coeducation, Females, Mathematics Education
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Madigan, Jennifer C. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2005
In this qualitative study the author used case study methods to examine perceptions of gender, race, and disability through the viewpoints and experiences of Latina students. The participants were secondary school girls with mild to moderate disabilities attending single-gender and coeducational special education classes on an urban school site in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Single Sex Classes, Sexual Identity, School Location
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Delfabbro, Paul; Winefield, Tony; Trainor, Sarah; Dollard, Maureen; Anderson, Sarah; Metzer, Jacques; Hammarstrom, Anne – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
;This study examined the nature and prevalence of bullying/victimization by peers and teachers reported by 1,284 students (mean age = 15.2 years) drawn from a representative sample of 25 South Australian government and private schools. Students completed a self-report survey containing questions relating to teacher and peer-related bullying,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Educational Environment, Gender Differences