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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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Dobson, Tom – Gender and Education, 2015
Identity studies relating to writing in educational setting have tended to focus on the analysis of non-fiction texts. Aligning a Bakhtinian view of language with the concept of identity as participation in "figured worlds" [Holland et al. 1998, "Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds". London: Harvard University Press], this…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Males, Creative Writing, Identification (Psychology)
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McGrath, Kevin; Sinclair, Mark – Gender and Education, 2013
The call for more male primary-school teachers has long been associated with the educational needs of boys, the importance of positive male role models in schools and the disproportionate number of male and female primary-school teachers internationally. However, little is known about whether or not parents and students actually want more male…
Descriptors: Males, Elementary School Teachers, Gender Issues, Social Influences
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Perry, Brea L.; Link, Tanja; Boelter, Christina; Leukefeld, Carl – Gender and Education, 2012
Little research has examined whether the effects of race or socioeconomic status (SES) on educational attitudes differ by gender, limiting knowledge of unique vulnerabilities occurring at the intersection of multiple social statuses. Using data from 182 sixth-graders, interactions between gender, race/ethnicity, and SES in predicting educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Self Efficacy, Ethnicity
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Holfve-Sabel, Mary-Anne – Gender and Education, 2011
The aim of the study is to compare gender patterns of student attitudes toward school, teachers and peers in grade 6 over time. In 1967-68 and in 2003, 1500 pupils responded to the same 40-item questionnaire. A confirmatory factor analysis was applied. In the gender comparison the within-class level was used. The more traditional school factors,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Factor Analysis, Grade 6
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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
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Renold, Emma – Gender and Education, 2004
Focusing on the experiences of boys who choose not to cultivate their masculinities through hegemonic discourses and practices, this paper seeks to empirically explore and theorize the extent to which it is possible to live out the category 'boy' in non-hegemonic ways in the primary school setting. Drawing upon a year-long ethnography of…
Descriptors: Males, Peer Groups, Ethnography, Masculinity