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… requests regarding methodology. In this chapter, I introduce the journey I have undertaken to explore this world called Public Primary School Teachers’ Stories about English Language Teaching. I use the word journey to refer to this complex but … requests regarding methodology. In this chapter, I introduce the journey I have undertaken to explore this world called Public Primary School Teachers’ Stories about English Language Teaching. I use the word journey to refer to this complex but … experience at public schools started in April 2001. I chose a semi-rural school located in the south of Bogotá. I had a large class of fifty-one sixth graders. Students motivated me to continue my studies due to the number of questions related …
… Cognitivas en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional - Colciencias. Riding, R. y Cheema, I. (1991) Cognitive styles - an overview and integration. Educational Psychology, Vol. 11, Nos. 3 y 4, 193-215. Saracho, Olivia (1990) The match and mismatch of teachers’ and students’ cognitive styles. Early Child Development and Care, 54, 99–109 Tinajero, C.; Páramo, M.F. (1998) Edu cational implications of field … Cognitivas en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional - Colciencias. Riding, R. y Cheema, I. (1991) Cognitive styles - an overview and integration. Educational Psychology, Vol. 11, Nos. 3 y 4, 193-215. Saracho, Olivia (1990) The match …
… U ni ve rs id ad D is tr it al F ra nc is co J os é de C al da s […] fantasy is not so endless. I immediately suffered two public ‘humiliations’ after I was introduced to the class. One girl, who was sitting at the front desk, exclaimed ‘¡Another … need to pay close attention to these variables and their impact on the teaching-learning process and take each person’s styles and preferences into account. The second insight The studies of the difference between the way males and females use … feminism are the same thing showed me that they had a distorted view of feminism which reflected the ideas of society at large. Some women in class did not like the term ‘feminist’, since they thought it implied an antagonistic relation with men …
… the way the teachers taught their classes did not depend on the gender of their students, but their personal pedagogical styles. However, this may have been due to their lack of knowledge of a system where boys and girls study in separate … the girls teased each other in a more discreet and indirect way, in accordance with the cultural belief that men act in a public realm, while women act in a private one (Ivinson and Murphy, 2007). In short, the gender of the students did not … in same-sex classes at least, boys and girls are socialized to behave differently and thus have different communicative styles. The teachers noted that gender influenced their relationships with their students, in that they all showed a …