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Baybars, Meryem Gorecek – Science Education International, 2020
The purpose of the current study was to determine secondary school students' images of a scientist with regard to gender as the variable. The study was carried out with the participation of 240 secondary school students in a city located in the western part of Turkey in the fall term of the 2017-2018 school year. The data were collected with…
Descriptors: Scientists, Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Jina Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Underrepresentation of African-American males as grade level rises is a major concern in education (Duggins & Acosta, 2017; Howard, 2010; Husband, 2012; Tatum, 2006; Washington, Patton-Terry, & Siedenberg, 2013). Prior studies have placed the blame on African-American males in grades k-12 for their lack of academic progress. In an effort…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Racism, Gender Bias
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Kipchumba, Elijah; Sulaiman, Munshi – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
School enrollment and attendance for adolescent girls is a key priority for education sector in most developing countries. In Somalia, this is even more prominent given the low enrollment rate of girls and the gender specific challenges that the girls face. Girls in Somalia often remain absent from schools during their menstrual periods due to…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Environment, Adolescents, Gender Issues
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Clark, Sheryl – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
This paper considers girls' participation in running and other outdoor physical activities in their local areas in London, UK. The paper is concerned with the operation of risk discourses in and around this participation and looks at the way that such discourses impacted on girls' opportunities to take part in physical activities that required…
Descriptors: Females, Participation, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Asher, Rikki – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
The Pardada Pardadi Girls Vocational School (PPGVS) in India was established in 2000 by Virendera (Sam) Singh, a retired U.S. Dupont South Asia department head to address the issue of gender bias in India. According to the school's website, nearly half of India's population is illiterate: males outnumber females two-to-one in literacy and drop-out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indians, Females, Gender Bias
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Barajas, Katarina Eriksson – Ethnography and Education, 2008
The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. The present paper examines gender in a Swedish school,…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Clubs, Grade 4, Gender Issues