‘They won't take you as a man,as a real man’ why men can't teach young children in foundation phase

This article focuses on how male and female primary school teachers’ account of the suitability of male teachers in early years or Foundation Phase (FP) of schooling. We draw from an in-depth qualitative interview-based study to examine how ideals around hegemonic masculinity have effects for the characterization of FP within traditional feminine qualities such as nurturing and caring for children. These qualities contrasted with hegemonic masculinity and fuelled the disassociation between men and teaching young children. We found that whilst men had the responsibility to provide financially for children, their involvement in childcare duties was linked to low-status work gendering the construction of carework as women’s work. The shame and embarrassment associated with teaching young children were an important mechanism to police and regulate hegemonic masculinity. Analysing how male and female primary school teachers construct hegemonic forms of masculinity provides insights into the reproduction of FP as a feminised profession as well as the construction and maintenance of counter feminist masculine ideals. Addressing forms of masculinity that are premised on male domination is vital in South Africa, especially as the need to alter masculinities and deepen gender equality has barely touched this phase of schooling.     

(Re)Configuring masculinities in an ethno-centric Australian community school: complexity and contradictions

This article draws on a case study of 15 boys aged between 13 and 14 years who attend an urban ethno-centric community school located in Melbourne, Australia. The study investigated how the boys' constructions of masculinity were mediated by a strong connectedness to their Greek cultural traditions and ideals. Data generated from focus group discussions provided insights into the complex ways in which the boys individually and collectively constructed their understandings of what it means to be a man. For most boys, maleness constituted cultural traditions and behaviours that must be learnt: a code of conduct which a boy acquires from his elders that is talked into existence and transmitted through a hegemonic discourse. Yet the findings also revealed the agency boys can exercise and the fluidity of their configurations: contradictions and inconsistencies being an inherent part of the recursive process of their gendered identity formation.     

Constructing men who teach: research into care and gender as productive of the male primary teacher

This paper argues that in order to begin loosening the ties that bind care and gender in primary education, we need to re-examine the knowledge sought and found by educational research about teachers. The focus is primarily on how we understand men who teach. Through an examination of two scholarly texts – Ashley, M., and J. Lee [2003 Ashley, M., and J. Lee. 2003. Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham. [Google Scholar]. Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham] and King, J. [1998 King, J. 1998. Uncommon Caring: Learning from Men Who Teach Young Children. New York: TCP. [Google Scholar]. Uncommon Caring: Learning from Men Who Teach Young Children. New York: TCP] – I argue that we must be mindful that our research can effectively produce and reiterate common-sense understandings of men that binds them to the hegemonic masculine ideal. It is argued that mixed-method qualitative research that untangles the layers of context influencing the lives of men who teach is important. The paper also suggests that the study of male teachers' emotions, as at once individual and social, and private and public, can disrupt the rational–emotional binary that cements care to gender and reveal new configurations of the gender order.     

探讨高职院校经济学基础课程的教学

《经济学基础》是高职院校财经和管理类专业重要的核心基础理论课程。由于该课程学科体系庞杂、理论性强,要符合高职教育重视能力培养的要求,给课程教学带来了一定的难度,根据当前教学中存在的问题,为提高教学效果,结合自身教学实践提出了相关建议。     

反思性教学:外语教师专业发展的必由之路

反思性教学是近年来在教学实践领域兴起的一种教学思潮。因其具有将“学会教学”与“学会学习”结合起来的实践合理性而受到教育界的广泛关注。本文阐述了反思性教学的内涵以及反思性教学对教师专业发展的意义与作用,分析了在外语教学中运用反思性教学,将有利于促进外语教师的专业发展。最后,介绍了在外语教学中开展反思性教学的几种途径和方法以及外语反思性教学实践的基本环节。     

基于项目教学法的过程工程基础课程教学实践

过程工程基础是一门应用性基础课程,涉及知识面广,采用传统教学方法往往达不到理想的教学效果。以项目教学法为指导思想,详细介绍了项目教学法在过程工程基础课程理论与实践教学中的实践过程。     

基于质量工程的地学基磕教学实习改革与实践

实习教学环节是本科教学培养计划中的重要环节,结合多年的地学教学实习,分析其必要性,总结其目前的主要类型,结合具体的实习内容和方案提出一些建议,以适应实践教学面临的新形势,并能提高实习环节教学质量。     

材料科学基础多媒体教学探讨

本文结合金属材料工程专业材料科学基础的教学实践,根据该门课程的特点,指出了材料科学基础多媒体教学的必要性,分析了与传统教学相比所具有的优越性和存在的问题,并指出了相应的改进方法。     

Turning to teaching: gender and career choice

As the largest public sector institution in the United Kingdom, education is a key site for studying the context of ‘choice’ and changes in the identities of professional workers in contemporary society. Recruitment and retention problems in education have led to the creation of new routes into teaching to attract career changers from other professions and occupations. In this paper we focus on career changers within the Economic and Social Research Council project ‘Primary Teacher Identity, Commitment and Career in Performative School Cultures’ who have entered teaching from other private sector occupations. We analyse these career changes in terms of ‘turning points’ in the participants’ lives in order to assess the extent to which choices are ‘self‐initiated’, ‘forced’ or ‘structural’. We are interested in the basis on which these choices were made and the impact of gender on career decisions.     

浅谈图形同构在高职高专设计造型基础教学中的作用

图形同构是设计造型基础教学中,尤其是创造性思维训练的一个重要课题。通过图形同构的理论与方法的讲解,使学生较快的建立以图形同构为基础的创意方法,在高职高专设计基础教学中起到重要的作用。     

Gender balance in teaching debate: tensions between gender theory and equality policy

This paper draws on findings from a research project funded by the Scottish Executive which analysed the gender balance in teaching and explored the underlying reasons for the decline in the number and proportion of men, particularly in secondary schools. As in other developed countries, such as Australia, the USA and Canada, the proportion of men entering teaching has declined fairly rapidly over a ten‐year period. At a time when women are participating in paid work in greater numbers than ever before, their concentration in certain areas of work, particularly in the service sector and the ‘caring’ professions, is increasingly apparent. Despite the clarity of this trend, it is evident that responses from academics and policy‐makers have been very different, with some policy‐makers linking the declining proportion of men in teaching with the problem of boys’ underachievement and a perceived ‘crisis in masculinity’, whilst some feminist writers have questioned these views, drawing on recent gender theory which questions the utility of the binary categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman’, instead suggesting that gender is performed and may have little to do with the body of the person who is involved in the particular performance. Sex and gender thus become decoupled, with the focus on individual actors freely choosing the version of gender they wish to practice. This line of argument suggests that the sex of the teacher is irrelevant; what really matters is the way in which they perform gender in the classroom. Work on the gender balance in teaching therefore provides an opportunity to reflect on underlying tensions in gender theorising and policy‐making. The paper begins by considering tensions between modernist and post‐structuralist accounts of sex and gender. Having outlined the underlying theoretical tensions, it then goes on to consider the accounts given by teachers and students of the reasons for their own choice of teaching as a career, their experiences in teaching and their views of the reasons underlying the declining proportion of men in teaching. The aim is to consider whether students and teachers believe that sex is an important variable structuring their lives, including their decision to become a teacher and their experiences of working as a teacher, or whether they regard gender as something which is chosen from a wide repertoire of options and is relatively free from the constraints of embodiment. In relation to research on the gender balance in teaching, the paper concludes by suggesting that there is a need to make use of the idea of gender as performance, whilst at the same time holding on to the foundational concepts of ‘woman’ and ‘man’. This is necessary to monitor and understand the career paths and underlying power relations of women and men in teaching and to transform these over time.     

材料科学基磕实验课多媒体教学及网络教学平台建设

根据多媒体教学及网络教学的特点,提出材料科学基础实验课多媒体教学及网络教学平台的构建思路与方法。通过与传统实验课相比分析其存在的优势与不足,并对相应的改进方法进行初步探讨。     

浅谈计算机应用基础的教学

从该课程的两个方面——理论课和上机课初步阐述了计算机应用基础教学的模式，并对该课程的教学顺序谈了自已几点设想和做法。     

应用化学专业基础课程教学团队建设的探索与实践

结合南阳师范学院应用化学专业基础课程教学团队建设的实践经验,从师资队伍建设、课程建设、教学内容和教学方法的改革、科研转化为教学等方面介绍了我校团队的建设情况。     

机械制造基础课程中多媒体与板书教学方式研究

为提高机械制造基础课程教学质量,从机械制造基础课程教学任务出发,分析教学特点,基于教学实例,探讨运用多媒体技术进行机械制造基础教学的优势与不足,结合教学实践经验,研究运用板书与多媒体结合的教学方式提升课堂教学质量的方法。     

Desirable organisational masculinities: competition and entrepreneurialism in schools of construction in further education colleges

This article presents findings from a study of heads of construction schools within 14 further education colleges. Moving from a culture of hyper-masculinity, of tough, dirty work, construction lecturers and managers have to renegotiate their identity and work practices to become congruent with the inclusiveness of further education, leaving behind the aggression and discrimination embedded within the discourses and behaviours of the building site. However, they do bring with them desirable organisational masculinities, competitiveness and entrepreneurialism, that are highly valued by the contemporary college. The article presents findings of competitive and entrepreneurial practices in schools of construction and discusses the key role heads of construction play in bringing together multiple masculinities for the benefit of their school and their learners.     

依托示范中心开展机械基础认知教学的实践

依托省级机械基础实验教学示范中心，构建认知教学内容体系和教学平台，开展对工程类和非工程类学生的机械基础和工程素质认知教学活动。通过教学实践和革新，取得了一定成效，相关课程深受学生欢迎。     

教师如何成为教学研究者

"教师即研究者"已是大家普遍认同的理念和共同追求的目标。教师解决教学实践中的困惑与困难,进行有效教学,教师要实现专业化,成为幸福的教师,必须进行教育教学研究。不断学习,注重实质积累;积极反思,从小处入手;相互协作,团队合作是教师进行教学研究有效途径。     

男幼师培养要“以生为本”“因性施教”

"以生为本"要求男幼师培养工作"一切为了男生、为了一切男生、为了男生的一切";"因性教"要求男幼师培养工作必须考虑男生的性别特征、专业思想、就业理想、学习环境、心理压力及社会对男幼师的专业要求等."以生为本"体现了男幼师培养工作的人本性特征,两性差异的心理学研究成果是男幼师培养"因性施教"的理论依据,学前教育专业男生的生存状态及男生教育的落后面貌是男幼师培养"以生为本"、"因性施教"的现实依据.     

The zones framework for both teaching and learning: application to graduate student teaching assistants

The zones framework conceived for the examination of thinking about teaching, is validated, and extended to the examination of thinking about learning. This is done by extending the framework to examine thinking about teaching and learning in a population of science graduate student teaching assistants. Semi‐structured interviews explore these students’ teaching and learning experiences, how their experiences relate to their knowledge of educational theory, and how they have formed their ideas about what constitutes good teaching. The article demonstrates that the zones framework can be extended to thinking about learning, and that it is appropriate for examining the thinking of students as well as teachers. Recommendations for further research are made, including the exploration of discipline‐specific thinking.