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Pillay, Venitha – Gender and Education, 2006
This paper examines the extent to which masculinity played a role in the incorporation of an education college into a university in South Africa. I adopt the theoretical stance that masculinity is not a biological phenomenon that is peculiar to males but the socially constructed behaviour of masculine subjects that is contextually driven, and that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Context Effect, Sex Role
Johnson, David, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2008
It is 40 years since Coombs (1967) first drew attention to the World Education Crisis, and specifically problems in the educational systems of countries in the developing world. Today, many of these problems remain, and are most visible in the educational systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of children remain out of school…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Democracy, Knowledge Level, Educational Change