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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"representations of teachers"”.
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Looking in: Mapping representations of teachers' discursive writing practices
… have historically privileged a particular view of writing over others, very little is known about how New Zealand teachers engage with discourses of writing. Research in the field of literacy has traditionally favoured reading, creating variable opportunities for building knowledge of writing …
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Basic Writing, Binaries, and Bridges: Difference and Power in the Production and Reception of Representations of Students
Difference and power produce powerful, damaging representations of students. Those representations of students affect representations of teachers, writing instruction, and English studies as a whole. Damaging representations of students come from competing definitions of literacy. Because literacy …
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Doing homework: negotiations of the domestic in twentieth-century novels of teaching
… I analyze seven twentieth-century novels of teaching in order to investigate how notions of “home” and “school” are constructed, connected, and perpetuated in popular teaching narratives. Images of teachers in much of this century’s fiction often rest on views of the school as home that …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
This study examines an important dimension of the global challenge to achieve Education for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the …
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Phenomenology, Film and Curriculum Theory: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Persona of Teachers
Teachers have lost autonomy due to the restraints placed on them by local and state standards and standardized testing. I am concerned that teachers have lost sight of their purpose as intellectuals who guide students in the development of critical thinking skills. In this dissertation, I used film …