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Kennedy, Jay – Journal of Experiential Education, 2023
Background: Scholarship has demonstrated the influence of hegemonic masculine norms on values and practices in outdoor adventure education. However, recent publications indicate that men outdoor leaders may be increasingly aware of gender biases and consequently changing their practice. To date, few publications have considered men outdoor…
Descriptors: Males, Gender Issues, Masculinity, Adventure Education
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Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna; Pettersson, Helena – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This article analyzes masculinity and experimental practices within three different physics communities. This work is premised on the understanding that the discipline of physics is not only dominated by men, but also is laden with masculine connotations on a symbolical level, and that this limited and limiting construction of physics has made it…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Physics, Science Instruction, Gender Bias
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Skelton, Christine – Educational Review, 2012
This review discusses and critiques the literature on men teachers and "feminised" primary schools from a feminist poststructuralist position. It is aimed at an audience new to the topic. The focus on "men primary teachers" as a field of research flourished as a consequence of concerns over boys' underachievement when an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Elementary School Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
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O'Shaughnessy, Sara; Krogman, Naomi T. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2011
Given the varied nature of resource dependent communities, the gendered experiences of women and men may vary in unexpected and contradictory ways. Building on a review and critique of existing theoretical approaches and studies of US and Canadian extractive resource communities in both the feminist and rural social science literature, we provide…
Descriptors: Feminism, Social Sciences, Sexual Identity, Literacy