Share on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Email to a friend
Tag: teachers
Breaking the Mould – it’s child’s play
Resources for teachers and parents about children’s books that challenge gender stereotypes Share on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Email to a friend
GEA 2013: Compelling Diversities, Educational Intersections: Policy, Practice, Parity
Gender and Education Association Biennial Conference 2013 Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University Tuesday 23rd– Friday 26th April 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers: – Prof. Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle,Continue reading
Into the Woods
As a practicing middle school English Language Arts teacher and researcher in the Northeastern US, I am interested in the stories adolescents tell about their lives. To this end, my research in classrooms is ethnographic andContinue reading
‘Keeping it Real’: teenage girls and everyday feminism
It is an overcast Friday in mid-October as the Cardiff University contingent (that’s us!) pull up outside a rated-but-dated business hotel in Newport; we are attending the #KeepingItReal conference for teenage girls, run by theContinue reading
Physics Education: It’s Different for Girls?
Back in the late eighties I was one of two girls out of thirty pupils in my 5th form Physics class. While girls were happy to take up the Biology and Modern Language options, inContinue reading
Arab Women Teachers – sharing their hopes and standing together
On 17 July 2012, fifty women teacher trade unionists from 11 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen) met in Amaan, Jordan. They were meeting to decide whether theyContinue reading
BY GOVE: BACK TO THE FUTURE: EDUCATION CIRCA 1962!
GEA Policy Officer’s Report, 2012 Share on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Email to a friend
World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
A brilliant new resource for ‘visualising the educational pathways’ of males and females and for observing the changes in disparities over time has been launched by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Maps, charts and tablesContinue reading
Learned to Kill? Now Teach our Children: A Critique of Troops to Teachers
The UK government, following the lead of the US, is devising multiple ways to get more ex-members of the military into our schools – as teachers, mentors, classroom assistants and basic skills tutors. Share onContinue reading