... A whole-class involvement in the 'Active Learning' process will help cement understanding among the students. This also works outside of teaching Shakespeare as I have used this model for other topics, including poetry, where students can witness each other's efforts, build on and learn from such evaluative exercises. Giving pupils the opportunity to have ownership and responsibility during the scheme ... which may seem insignificant to a 'sophisticated' audience in the twenty first century. Flachmann (1997) disagrees and thinks that providing social, historical and cultural r...

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... taking an interest in mathematics is the content and nature of mathematics itself. Mathematics problems in textbooks are usually based on gender-specific topics such as weight of blocks, distance of trains or themes such as football, the wording of which gives the impression of being sex ... However, men mostly hold principal posts. As Barber states, teaching is seen as a "caring profession", seen to be a reasonable job for a woman and a poor one for a man. Barber maintains that this stems from an over-representation in humanistic studies, directed towards service such as nursing and teac...

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