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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hjalmarsson, Maria; Löfdahl, Annica – Gender and Education, 2014
The article explores how male primary school teachers view and relate to other people's expectations of them as teachers. The empirical data consists of interviews with seven teachers working in compulsory school grades three to five in a large-sized town in Sweden. The theoretical work on relations among masculinities developed by Connell…
Descriptors: Males, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
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Cervoni, Cleti; Ivinson, Gabrielle – Gender and Education, 2011
The paper explores the ways girls appropriate gender through actions, gesture and talk to achieve things in primary school science classrooms. It draws on socio-cultural approaches to show that when everyday classroom practices are viewed from multiple planes of analysis, historical, institutional and in the micro dynamics of classroom…
Descriptors: Females, Interaction, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
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Aukrust, Vibeke Grover – Gender and Education, 2008
The participation of girls and boys in teacher-led classroom conversations in Norway was examined across four grade levels (first, third, sixth and ninth). Boys participated more across all grade levels. The difference in girls' and boys' participation was least in the first grade and greatest in the ninth grade. A greater proportion of the girls'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Grade 1, Males