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Lantsoght, Eva O. L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The doctoral defence is the oral examination of the doctoral thesis. While it is a major milestone for doctoral candidates, this event is often shrouded in mystery. In this article, I explore the doctoral defence from an international perspective. I have studied the format of the defence based on written testimonies as well as the literature on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Verbal Tests, Discourse Analysis
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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