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van Doodewaard, Corina; Knoppers, Annelies – Gender and Education, 2018
Many physical education (PE) teachers have been challenged by the shift from teaching in primarily ethnic homogenous contexts to multi-ethnic (ME) classes. Teachers in secondary schools often experience difficulty in class management in such classes. This difficulty may limit their ability to create a positive student--teacher relationship and may…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Ethnicity, Secondary School Teachers, Classroom Techniques
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Yazilitas, D.; Saharso, S.; de Vries, G. C.; Svensson, J. S. – Gender and Education, 2017
This study focuses on high school students' profile choices and the choice for or against the Nature and Technology (NT) profile in the Netherlands. A mixed-methods approach is used to study cultural values that affect this choice. The quantitative part of the study shows that being female is negatively correlated with the choice for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Gender Differences, Mixed Methods Research
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van Amsterdam, Noortje; Knoppers, Annelies; Claringbould, Inge; Jongmans, Marian – Gender and Education, 2012
This article explores how Dutch physical education (PE) teachers discursively construct body differences between students related to gender, (dis)ability and health. Our results show how disciplinary technologies of categorisation and normalisation are embedded in two distinct discourses that our participants used: the discourse of naturalness for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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de Wet, Annamagriet; Roux, Cornelia; Simmonds, Shan; ter Avest, Ina – Gender and Education, 2012
Human rights play a vital role in citizens' political, religious and cultural life (Wang 2002, 171). Due to the prominence of human rights in the everyday life of citizens, including those of South Africa, human rights education has been included in many school curricula. Human rights education aims to develop responsible citizens who "inter…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Religion, Gender Differences
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Verdonk, Petra; Mans, Linda J. L.; Lagro-Janssen, Toine L. M. – Gender and Education, 2006
Medical education has not taken on board the growing awareness of sex and gender differences. A nation-wide project to incorporate sex and gender in medical education aims to establish longitudinal gender and sex specific curricula in all Dutch medical schools that move beyond sex and gender differences in reproduction. A baseline assessment was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, Gender Issues, Medical Education