The article focuses on a key aspect of the experiences of young gay men and considers how their responses might inform HIV prevention education for all young people. The article first outlines key representations of same-sex desire and of HIV/AIDS through which young gay men learn various certainties about gay men, gay sex and AIDS. As a…

Hong Kong is embarking on curricular and pedagogic reforms which replace modernist, Tylerian approaches to the curriculum with recommendations that echo many features of complexity theory. The nature of complexity theory-based curricula are outlined, and these are used to interrogate three seminal curriculum reform documents in Hong Kong. The…

This article draws on the Students Completing Schooling Project, conducted in Australia, which has developed an account of early school leaving though listening to how 209 young people made sense of their experiences of leaving school. In this study, we were keen to understand the way young people deliberate upon how schooling fits into their…

Describes the education community and coeducation in Flanders, examining major disadvantages related to contemporary problems in education; discussing what the government and teacher education institutions have done to prepare teachers for coeducation; and noting how the introduction of coeducation into the complex Belgian school structure, which…

This study demonstrated how everyday discourses of discipline and control, as well as professional discourses of problem behavior, intersected with ethnicity and masculinities, highlighting how the masculinities and ethnicities of a male Norwegian secondary student and his male teacher intersected in the classroom and how they connected with other…

Explored Finnish students' perspectives on males and females as teachers, contrasting them with teachers' perceptions. Data from interviews with students age 13-14, followup interviews at age 17-18, and research on teachers indicated that while teachers considered lack of male teachers a continuing problem, students did not consider gender…

Surveyed and interviewed British elementary teachers to examine gender differences in their perceptions of their careers. Females and males indicated different concerns and influences on their careers. Reasons for not achieving promotion were multifaceted. Known and experienced disproportionate promotion of men, plus traditional gender differences…

Explores the view that epistemological issues are central to developing a gender-critical initial teacher education, highlighting current government conceptualizations and the associated assessment practices in England and Wales that are predicated on a technicist model of teaching; critiquing this model; offering an alternative involving…

Explores differences and similarities in various European national histories, politics, and traditions regarding gender relationships within and outside teacher education that affect school and college practice, discussing: the feminization of teaching and teacher education; the European Union's impact; the extent to which gender is a discourse in…