FreeFallin wrote:
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And not a mention that the vast vast majority of teachers are women. You'll note that the 2 female authors don't mention that most obvious fact but such are the times we live in
Even the teachers' unions want a study into the overwhelming gender imbalance among primary teachers and the growing imbalance among secondary teachers.
http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-imbalan ... 4-Oct2016/It is a Europe-wide phenomenon but, no, the Irish Research Council prefers to fund researchers in NUI Galway who have built their careers researching diversity without addressing this (male) elephant in the room.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-sc ... inireland/Years of publicly-funded research to tell us that Irish teachers are almost all white!!!
I see some work on socio-economic background which sounds very relevant - many teachers used to come from small farms but I suspect the training colleges are now almost exclusively middle-class. Nothing will be done about that either - first we must get "diversity"
This is not pure codology - places in teacher training will be reserved for those who are "diverse" (hint: not males)
The media will never challenge them but peer recognition will surely come - an Ignoble nomination can't be far off!
https://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/