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Direct linkKobus Maree – Gifted Education International, 2024
This article reports on how intervention research based on integrative career counselling enhanced the existential experience of a gifted learner. The participant of this study was a purposively selected gifted 17-year-old girl learner in search of a career that would help her experience meaning, purpose, and hope in and through her career-life.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Self Concept, Gifted, Intervention
Download full textHencke, Juliane; Eck, Matthias; Sass, Justine; Hastedt, Dirk; Mejia-Rodriguez, Ana Maria – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
Using IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 data, this brief explores the relationship between students' gender, their confidence and achievement in mathematics and science, and their aspirations to pursue careers in these fields. We find that more boys than girls at grade 8 want to have a mathematics- or…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, High Achievement, Gender Differences
Dosunmu, Akinola George; Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
This article offers insights into the concepts of lifelong learning and human capital development (HCD). It highlights HCD as the core of career advancement and lifelong learning for women as an important mechanism for progressing to senior management positions. The two concepts are considered in relation to women's career choices and their…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Human Capital, Career Development, Telecommunications
Mlambo, Yeukai Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Black African women are grossly underrepresented as academic staff in engineering programs at South African universities. The problem is exacerbated at historically White institutions (HWI) where Black women are simply absent as engineering research and teaching staff. The absence of Black African women in the academy occurs despite Black African…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Females, Engineering, Technical Occupations
Lewis, Andrew – South African Journal of Education, 2014
This article explores the initial steps in developing and presenting Sport Psychology in a leadership and sport curriculum at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Centre for Human Performance Sciences' (CHPS) Academy for Girls' Leadership and Sport Development. Sport Psychology does not feature within the South African school curriculum specifically,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sport Psychology, Females, Institutes (Training Programs)
Wildschut, Angelique – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations underlying the specialisation choices of six female specialist doctors working in Cape Town, South Africa and to investigate whether the specific gender work identity associated with that specialism resulted in their motivation to enter it. Design/methodology/approach: The research…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Females
Geldenhuys, Johanna; de Lange, Naydene – South African Journal of Education, 2007
It is a well-acknowledged fact that the role of women in society has been changing worldwide over recent decades and South Africa has not been exempt from this trend. Dramatic changes--politically, socially, economically and educationally--have occurred in South Africa since its first democratic, non-racial elections in 1994, which have affected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiracial Persons, Blacks, Females
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
