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Does gender matter? A cross-national investigation of primary class-room discipline.
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupFewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy pupils, the demand for more male teachers has become prevalent in educational discourse. Concerns have frequently been raised about the underachievement of boys, with claims that the lack of male ‘role models’ in schools has an adverse effect on boys’ academic motivation and engagement. Although previous research has examined ‘teaching’ as institutional talk, men’s linguistic behaviour in the classroom remains largely ignored, especially in regard to enacting discipline. Using empirical spoken data collected from four primary school classrooms in both the UK and in Germany, this paper examines the linguistic discipline strategies of eight male and eight female teachers using Interactional Sociolinguistics to address the question, does teacher gender matter?Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio
A Conversation with Chris Heyde
Born in Sydney, Australia, on April 20, 1939, Chris Heyde shifted his
interest from sport to mathematics thanks to inspiration from a schoolteacher.
After earning an M.Sc. degree from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. from
the Australian National University (ANU), he began his academic career in the
United States at Michigan State University, and then in the United Kingdom at
the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester. In 1968, Chris
moved back to Australia to teach at ANU until 1975, when he joined CSIRO, where
he was Acting Chief of the Division of Mathematics and Statistics. From 1983 to
1986, he was a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Statistics at the
University of Melbourne. Chris then returned to ANU to become the Head of the
Statistics Department, and later the Foundation Dean of the School of
Mathematical Sciences (now the Mathematical Sciences Institute). Since 1993, he
has also spent one semester each year teaching at the Department of Statistics,
Columbia University, and has been the director of the Center for Applied
Probability at Columbia University since its creation in 1993. Chris has been
honored worldwide for his contributions in probability, statistics and the
history of statistics. He is a Fellow of the International Statistical
Institute and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he is one of three
people to be a member of both the Australian Academy of Science and the
Australian Academy of Social Sciences. In 2003, he received the Order of
Australia from the Australian government. He has been awarded the Pitman Medal
and the Hannan Medal. Chris was conferred a D.Sc. honoris causa by University
of Sydney in 1998. Chris has been very active in serving the statistical
community, including as the Vice President of the International Statistical
Institute, President of the Bernoulli Society and Vice President of the
Australian Mathematical Society. He has served on numerous editorial boards,
most notably as Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications from 1983
to 1989, and as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Probability and Advances
in Applied Probability since 1990.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000088 in the
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Cottage Cheese or Chicken? An AFSCME Fight for Public Food Service
[Excerpt] Confronted with mounting fiscal problems, many state and local government officials consider privatization or contracting out of public services a quick fix for their difficulties. The on-the-job experience of the 1.2 million members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) at all levels of government shows that the use of private firms to deliver public services has serious consequences—including deterioration of service, increased and hidden costs, corruption, and negative social effects on the community
When Technology Makes Headlines: The Media's Double Vision About the Digital Age
Analyzes technology-related news items appearing in lead sections of mainstream media for trends in popular topics, companies, and messages about technology's influence and its risks. Compares findings with trends in new media such as blogs and Twitter
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