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Sheshadri, Srividya; Coley, Christopher; Devanathan, Sriram; Rao, R. Bhavani – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
In this paper, a novel education framework for a gender-inclusive, development oriented approach is investigated within the context of a non-formal vocational education and training programme implemented in rural India. Analysis of the two-year intervention that delivered vocational and life skills education to women in rural India has led to a…
Descriptors: Females, Empowerment, Womens Education, Nonformal Education
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Lou, Nigel Mantou; Li, Liman Man Wai – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background/Aims: Recent research on mindsets has shifted from understanding its homogenous role on performance to understanding how classroom environments explain its heterogeneous effects (i.e., Mindsets x Context hypothesis). Does the macro context (e.g., societal level of student mindsets) also help explain its heterogeneous effects? And does…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Intervention
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Desai, Karishma – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2023
Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Intervention
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Chakraborty, Chandrima, Ed.; Pal, Dipyaman, Ed. – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023
Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Kisana, Ravikant; Arora, Shubhda – Gender and Education, 2023
In 2018, Nuh, barely 75 km from India's parliament, was ranked by the Government as the country's most 'backward' district. It is a region fraught with many challenges including endemic poverty and simmering communal tensions, which among other factors have contributed to historically limiting women from pursuing higher education or building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Higher Education
Dimopoulos, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In this paper, the researcher presents the findings of this original qualitative study on the human experience of the participants of The Purkal Project, change-makers in social innovation that provide free, world-class education and vocational development in an economically challenged rural community in the Himalayan region of Northern India. In…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Rural Areas, Females
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Balakrishnan, Sashi Rekha; Soundararajan, Vasanthi; Parayitam, Satyanarayana – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: As teachers are considered "knowledge workers," the present study explores teacher performance in schools. A particular emphasis is given to assessing the performance of female teachers in the rural part of South India. Design/methodology/approach: After collecting data from 563 female teachers from four blocks in Nilgiris…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Females, Teacher Effectiveness
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Abhisek Panda; Laxmiram Gope – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
This theoretical research article delves into the necessity of embracing digital pedagogy as a transformative force for girls' education in contemporary India. This study is grounded in three main objectives: (1) assessing the current state of girls' education in India, (2) exploring the potential benefits of digital pedagogy, and (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Educational Technology
R., Remya V.; Chavan, Chetan U. – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims to investigate how girl students can be empowered through development of critical thinking skills in science. The researcher was interested in studying the effectiveness of Kolb's experiential learning in developing critical thinking skills of secondary school girl students. One group pretest-posttest design was used for this…
Descriptors: Females, Empowerment, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
The Reaching the Unreached--Scale-Up (RtU-S) project was launched in 2018 and completed in 2021. It was an extension of the Reaching the Unreached project (RtU) and sought to expand the success of the initial project in providing hard-to-reach women and girls with education and economic opportunities. RtU-S continued its activities in Bangladesh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Educational Opportunities
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Siddaraju, K. S. – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2019
The empowerment of women is one of the focusing issues in the process of developing countries over all the world. The International Women's Day celebrated on 8th March each year has become a day of demonstration for equal opportunity and solidarity. But the question arises how relevant is a celebration of Women's Day because their position in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Sex Role
Mahalingam, Mahalakshmi R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Food insecurity is a global concern and is acute in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as well as pockets in the global North. In the lush green spaces of "God's Own Country", the state of Kerala in India, about 379,000 women are engaged in farming in about 75,800 groups. Spearheaded by Kudumbashree, the State Poverty Eradication Mission…
Descriptors: Hunger, Females, Agricultural Occupations, Poverty
Gul, Showkeen Bilal Ahmad – Online Submission, 2015
The focus of this paper is to highlight the violence against women's in Jammu and Kashmir. In Jammu and Kashmir Woman are the most vulnerable and worst hit section of the society especially under situations of violence caused by militancy and armed conflict. They don't only suffer from intense humiliation and harassment but also undergo traumatic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Violence, Empowerment
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Wozolek, Boni – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Grounded in two collaborative interpretive studies--one with women in India who were survivors of domestic violence, and another with queer youth and youth of color in the Midwest who were survivors of sexual assault--this paper argues that there is a hidden curriculum of violence. This curriculum of violence can be traced through affective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hidden Curriculum, Family Violence, Sexual Abuse
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Shah, Payal; Khurshid, Ayesha – Gender and Education, 2019
In contemporary times, the status of Muslim women has become a lens to approach and engage with Muslim societies. Embedded in these narratives is an image of Muslim women as oppressed victims of their patriarchal families and societies. In this article, we focus on the lived experiences of educated Muslim women from Pakistan and India to examine…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Womens Education, Empowerment
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