Changes in Beginning Teachers\u27 Attitudes Towards Individualised Teaching Approaches During the First Year of Teaching

It is generally acknowledged that the beginning months of teaching can be a formidable and even painful ordeal for many teachers. For this reason, the beginning teacher has been the focus in a number of key studies conducted recently in various countries. The recent Auchmuty Report has recommended that teacher education research should include Iongitudinal studies of the socialisation of teachers, covering ... the early years of teaching, with particular reference to the acquisition of professional attitudes and values. The present research is consistent with this recommendation because it represents one of the few existing studies of specific pedagogical attitudes among beginning teachers

A Framework for Analysing Interactivity in a Remote Access Field Exploration System

Abstract: The research described in this paper is the investigation of interactivity between learners and system in the context of remote access to educational field explorations (field trips)

Spinning, Spooning and the Seductions of Flirtatious Masculinity in Contemporary Politics

This paper explores the relationships between masculinity, flirtation and fantasy within the promotional arena of politics and PR. Flirtation is associated with coquetry and play, connoting a lack of seriousness, and in political flirtation, the desire to move between different opinions and ideas. Flirtation is often linked with femininity. Yet against a backdrop of masculinity in crisis, the study of flirtation, with its connotations of ambiguity and frustrated desire, is useful to explore the uncertainties of masculinities today. Dilemmas about flirtation as a tantalising performance resonate with misgivings about the seductive nature of political spin and the desire of politicians to woo audiences by flirting to the camera. Taking examples of politicians such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, this paper discusses the possibilities of flirtatious masculinity as a counter-hegemonic strategy within the symbolic battleground of Western politics, a struggle largely played out in print and digital media