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Wessman-Enzinger, Nicole M.; Stilwell, Clara – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Unpacking middle school students' mathematical relationships is important as a step towards improving mathematical relationships. In this study, 500 middle school students drew personifications of mathematics. We examined these personifications of mathematics for insight into their relationships with mathematics. Using constant comparative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Cahill, Helen – Gender and Education, 2022
Little has been written about how to bring feminist theory to pedagogical design, such that school students can engage with concepts such as power relations, governmentality, performativity, intersectionality, or affective assemblage. However, these concepts provide powerful thinking frames for activating insight into the shaping nature of gender…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Feminism, Educational Theories, Instructional Design
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Hope Kitts – Critical Education, 2024
As part of a larger study, through this research I examined the ideological foundations of public school teachers' interpretations of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I discovered that White teachers in this study talked about oppression in ways that implied it was a natural part of life, and even in some cases necessary for learning.…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis
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Cohen, Rinat; Schechter, Chen – Planning and Changing, 2019
The professional literature views school principals as major socializing agents for assistant principals (AP) due to their ability to determine the AP's responsibilities, assess performance, and influence the AP's willingness to advance to higher management roles. The effect of the relationship between the two on the AP's functioning is even…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Principals, Interprofessional Relationship, Socialization
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Nordquist, Brice; Lueck, Amy – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
In this commentary, we use the occasion of the proliferation of dual enrollment to examine the discursive construction of difference between high school and college literacies, and its effects on teachers and students. This discursive divide has real, material consequences. It informs (and constrains) literacy practices and pedagogies, becomes a…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Literacy Education, High Schools, Colleges
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Michael Macaluso; Anne Russo – English Journal, 2016
This article respectfully challenges the metaphor of "open doors as resistance" by reconceptualizing power in the English classroom. It also offers an alternative metaphor -- open doors as acts of love and possibility -- through different theoretical and practical underpinnings. When we, according to the authors, conceive of teaching…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Language Arts, English Teachers, Teacher Empowerment