enquiry

[sabrina osb]

Dear Subscribers,
 I am an Algerian graduate student working on

teachers' gendered perceptions of university teaching. I prepared a
questionnaire in which i designed a number of questions that address
university
teaching including the university teacher. The questionnaire opens with the
question: what defines a university teacher? and the responses i gathered
from
16 university teachers  indicated some gendered tendencies as regards the
respondants' perceptions of university teachers. My questions concerns
methodology and are the following:


1-When analysing my data shall i deal with each

question individually or in general, that is show where those tendencies in
perceptions  seem to diverge and where they seem to be convergent ?


2- In tecahers' answers of faculty teachers there were

some genderd tendencies in which female teachers tended to define university
teachers in terms of the moral qualities that thay should embody and
displayin
their behaviours  such as' patience', 'respect', 'generosity'
,'self-confidence'  , 'righteous'. male teachers , on the other hand were
more likely to focus on teachers knowldge and how this knowldge is
transmitted
such as in ' facilitator', guide ' knows how to manage his classroom and his
time' ' . university teacher should equip the student develop learning
strategies I don(t want to spoon feed tham but teach then the know- how
acting
as a guide and a partner' ' an ongoing researcher ' . In analysing my data i
find it difficult how to describe such tendencies of perceptions .I thought
about
female tendencies to focus on tecahers behaviour and male tendencies to
focus
on their 'knowledge ' but iam doubtful about it  as i need more
appropriate and concise wording in describing tose genderd tendencies . Any
suggestions coming from you will be of great help .


Thank you in advance
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