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Peer reviewedO'Brien, Susie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1998
Seven intensive interviews with female college students at Roseworthy College, a rural agricultural college in South Australia, revealed that the college's historic rural masculine tradition and misogynist social environment restrict women to narrow sexual-subject positions: acting like a male; tutor/cleaner/mother/cook; "slut" versus…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, College Students, Cultural Images, Females
Download full textJohnstone, Kate – 2001
A study examined rural Australian student experiences of the transition to high school. Data were gathered from interviews, questionnaires, and student journals of 10 rural students during the last 5 weeks of primary school and during the first three terms of Year 7 in high school. Findings indicate that students had many anxieties related to the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Internet
