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Helen Cahill; Larissa McLean Davies; Sarah E. Truman; Troy Potter; Michèle Hinton Herrington – Gender and Education, 2025
This article explores whether secondary school English teachers can contribute to consent education in Australia. A scoping study involved reviewing research on consent education, examining both commonly taught and contemporary adolescent literature for themes of sexual consent, and conducting focus groups with English teachers. The textual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Consent
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Joelsson, Tanja; Bruno, Linnéa – Gender and Education, 2022
This article explores how young people in Sweden talk about and understand violence, with a particular emphasis on how violence, gender, space and time are co-constructed in this discourse. We found that young people display an ambivalent attitude to violence, reinforcing several contradictory discourses of violence. Young people adopt various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Violence, Sexual Abuse
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Engebretson, Kathryn E. – Gender and Education, 2021
In studies of gender and preservice teacher education, sexism is often a silent force that undergirds the inquiry, findings, and implications. This study explores how a group of preservice social studies teachers (n = 25) reify discourses about gender and gender issues within the context of discussing a current event involving sexual violence and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Gender Issues, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Le Mat, Marielle L. J. – Gender and Education, 2016
It has been increasingly recognised that sexual violence in schools is one of the major concerns with regard to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. This paper examines how boys and girls define, experience, and interpret sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and considers from their perspectives, how…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Secondary School Students, Intervention
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Gerver, Mollie – Gender and Education, 2013
In Rwanda, many victims do not report rape to the police because the perpetrators financially support their basic living needs and/or education. Victims who are impregnated by their perpetrators are even more financially dependent on them, both because of the additional expense of raising a child and because the possibilities of returning to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime, Rape, Sexual Abuse
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Jones, Shelley Kathleen – Gender and Education, 2011
This paper makes the case that policies, such as the National Strategy for Girls' Education in Uganda (NSGE), intended to achieve gender equity in education for girls in developing countries, have limited relevance to, and impact on girls' actual educational experiences. Recent considerations of girls' education acknowledge that gender equity…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Females, Sex Fairness, Educational Experience