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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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Yoga adapts to time and place

A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.

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The white tears of Taranaki

Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.

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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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  • Saint Thomas's Hospital, London: arms and teachers. Oil painting.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
  • The birth of Aristanemi, one of the founding teachers of the Jaina faith, from Kalpasutra
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Boys at a woodwork class with their teachers, in London. Photograph by Walter C. Tyler, ca. 1895.
  • The interior of a dissecting room: five students and/or teachers dissect a cadaver. Photograph, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Children encouraged by their teachers to box as a positive and healthy recreation. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1858.
  • A Peking mission-school with children and teachers sitting around tables, eating, in a courtyard, Peking, Pechili Province. China
  • Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
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The Blind Teacher

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