Browsing by Author "Thornton, Mary"

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    • Future scenarios for a depressed region of England : The role of education in creating alternative futures 

      Blass, E.; Thornton, Mary; Rawlings, B. (2011-10-01)
      Purpose: This paper seeks to outline four scenarios developed for the future of the South West Midlands region of England. Like many depressed regions in the UK, the foundation industries that initially developed the region ...

    • Internationalising teachers and teaching 

      Thornton, Mary (Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2009)
      Internationalisation could be seen as the defining feature of human society today. Modern travel, ease of communication, and economic and environmental interdependence, make it vitally important that teacher educators ...

    • 'Poor girls': a comparative analysis of their educational experiences in England and India 

      Thornton, Mary; Iyer, P. (University Press of America, 2009)
      Gender discrimination is prevalent in many societies, but poverty adds greatly to the experience of disadvantage, not least in terms of equality of educational opportunity and outcomes. The term ‘poor girls’ refers to a ...

    • Teacher gender and career patterns 

      Thornton, Mary; Bricheno, Patricia (Springer Nature, 2009)
      In general, across the world, the career trajectories of men and women are clearly differentiated. There has been much research that demonstrates men and women tend to occupy different positions in the workplace and there ...