Classroom Interactions: Gender of Teacher, Gender of Student, and Classroom Subject

• Published in: Sex roles Vol. 45; no. 9-10; pp. 579 - 593
• Main Authors: Duffy, Jim, Warren, Kelly, Walsh, Margaret
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 01.11.2001; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Canada; Classroom Communication; Courses; Criticism; Curriculum subjects; Education; Educational psychology; Educators; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary Schools; English Instruction; Equal Education; Females; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gender; Gender aspects; Gender Differences; Gender Issues; High School Students; High schools; Junior High Schools; Language Teachers; Males; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Teachers; Miscellaneous; Newfoundland; Positive Reinforcement; Predictors; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Sampling; Secondary Education; Secondary School Mathematics; Secondary School Science; Sex Differences; Sex Fairness; Social Interaction; Social psychology; Social role. Sex role; Statistical Analysis; Student Teacher Relationship; Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher-Student interactions; Teachers; Vocational Schools; United States; North America; America; Human; Social environment; English; Teacher pupil relation; Sex role; Social interaction; Cultural environment; Adolescent; Sex; Mathematics; School environment
• ISSN: 0360-0025; 1573-2762
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1014892408105

Investigated the effects of teacher gender, student gender, and classroom subject (mathematics or English) on teacher-student interactions. Observations of high school students and teachers indicated that female mathematics teachers and male and female English teachers tended to interact somewhat more with male students. This was not the result of male students having initiated more direct verbal interactions with teachers. (SM)