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Eleanor Hinton-Hallows – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
This essay explores a student teacher's experience teaching an identity-themed poetry unit to a Year 9 class at an all-boys comprehensive school through the lens of one student's writing. Investigating an intimate poem, produced at the end of a difficult lesson, reveals the importance of allowing students the space to bring their individual…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Motivation, Student Teachers, Poetry
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M. Wade Mahon – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Susan M. Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological, qualitative study was to explore how female math teachers build female high school students' math confidence in all-female high schools in the United States. The study aimed to share female math teachers' experiences around how they build female students' math confidence in the classroom. A review of the…
Descriptors: Females, Mathematics Teachers, Single Sex Schools, High Schools
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Variyan, George; Wilkinson, Jane – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper details the gendered oppressions of young female teachers in three elite boys' private schools in Australia. Drawing on Foucauldian analytics and the theory of practice architectures, we explore the discourses and practices that work together to silence and disempower female teachers in these schools. There is an unevenness in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools
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Hannigan, Shelley; Wickman, Per-Olof; Ferguson, Joseph Paul; Prain, Vaughan; Tytler, Russell – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
In this paper, we analyse results from one classroom session within an 8-week program in which Year 10 students constructed 'trash' puppets of endangered Australian animals. In making the puppets and using them as part of a 'theatre in a suitcase' performance at Melbourne Zoo, students were expected to integrate both scientific and artistic goals…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Science Education, Art Education, Foreign Countries
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Rozitis, Stef – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Under neoliberalism, parents as consumers are expected to provide their children with opportunities to get ahead. Governments defend elite schools on the grounds that 'diversity' and 'choice' are in the public interest but not everybody has an equal opportunity to choose. School websites act to promote specific images of schools with opportunities…
Descriptors: Males, Advantaged, Social Class, Masculinity
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Tangonyire, Raymond Chegedua – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Women and men are capable of effectively discharging school leadership roles. However, in Ghana, people are socialised to expect females to lead girls' schools and vice versa. Appointing a female or male to lead a single sex school that is opposite to their gender elicits gender stereotyping, protests and exclusion. While researchers have explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences
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Howard, Adam; Keddie, Amanda – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: Although the study of elite schools has been quite popular in recent years, elite all-boys schools in the United States have largely remained outside the gaze of researchers. Purpose: Two stories are presented to identify possibilities for advancing gender justice in those schools. Methods: Drawing on interview data of…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Males, Social Justice, Sex Fairness
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Walford, Geoffrey – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
This article explores the phenomenon of country houses repurposed as private schools. It investigates the population of English schools within the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference and the Girls' Schools Association and finds that some 55 of these schools are partially housed within former country houses, with 19 in Grade I listed…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Private Schools, Social Class, Boarding Schools
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Forgasz, Helen; Leder, Gilah – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2020
The debate on the relative merits of single-sex and co-educational schooling for girls and boys persists. There are also on-going concerns in Australia about declining enrolments in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines at both the tertiary and school levels. In this article, we summarise some core findings from…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Foreign Countries
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Andrews, Jake; Bagdasar, Ovidiu – Open Education Studies, 2023
Escape rooms are an increasingly popular form of live-action entertainment in which teams of players need to solve puzzles to escape or reach a narrative goal within a specified time limit. Current research suggests that this style of activity promotes the effective use of team skills in the classroom, which are desirable in the workplace, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving
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Katzir, Shai; Perry-Hazan, Lotem – Educational Review, 2023
The vast majority of Haredi schools for boys in Israel focus almost exclusively on religious studies. This study explores Haredi (Jewish ultra-Orthodox) activism aimed at promoting secular education in these schools. Data collection drew on semi-structured interviews with 20 Haredi activists. The findings compared two patterns of Haredi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Religious Schools, Activism
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Isack E. Kibona; Henry E. Nkya – Discover Education, 2024
Quality education has been emphasized by the world Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 17 goals the world set to achieve by 2030. According to the twenty-first century skills, quality education obliges to equip learners to compete in the twenty-first century job market. In addition to enriching enrolment in science, technology,…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Educational Quality, Coeducation, Secondary Schools
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Micah Sapir – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
Using resistance to digital technologies in religious nationalist public high schools in Israel as a frame for discussing minimal computing, this paper explores how socio-religious ideologies foster minimal technological practices. Based on interviews with administrators, homeroom teachers, and religious and secular content teachers from three…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Alejandra Miranda; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
This report looks at the provision of A level subjects in England in 2023. Provision in a subject is defined as the number or percentage of schools with at least one student taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England" service.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Gender Differences
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