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Kanwal, Huma; Jorgensen, Robyn – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
This paper explores the participation of Muslim girls in Health, Physical Education (HPE) and Sports in Brisbane Muslim and non-Muslim schools. The debate of Muslim women's' participation in sports is strongly entwined with firmly held beliefs inherited through culture, religion, politics and tradition regarding the female body. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Muslims, Team Sports, Females, Extracurricular Activities
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Wood, Susan – History of Education, 2009
Embroidery is traditionally regarded as women's work and the teaching of embroidery as a means of preparing young women for domesticity, a view which has been reinforced by historians studying changes in the high school art curriculum that occurred with the introduction of the Wyndham Scheme in New South Wales in the early 1960s. This paper argues…
Descriptors: High Schools, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education