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Temin, Miriam; Heck, Craig – Population Council, 2021
Programs increasingly use community-based girl groups (CBGGs) to address risks and empower adolescent girls, but evidence on their impact is not always accessible to decision makers. A closer look at 30 CBGG programs in low- and middle-income countries found that CBGGs had the greatest reported success in improving health and gender attitudes and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Females, Adolescents, Empowerment
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Yada, Takumi; Jäppinen, Aini-Kristiina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
Organizational scholars have vigorously and long studied being prosocial in defining 'prosociality' as motivation, behavior, and impact to help or benefit others. This study attempts to provide an overview of previous studies that have approached the elements of being prosocial in educational leadership contexts. However, most of the prosocial…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Prosocial Behavior, Empowerment, Organizational Culture
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Khera, Shikha N.; Malik, Sahil – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2016
Women talent in India is available in plenty and are joining the workforce in numbers. The bone of contention remains that a handful of them are able to get elevated to senior positions. Even then they are offered discounted roles, allowing only male executives to compete for top management positions. The paper attempts to identify and do an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Promotion (Occupational), Barriers
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Shanahan, Jenny Olin; Ackley-Holbrook, Elizabeth; Hall, Eric; Stewart, Kearsley; Walkington, Helen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
This paper identifies salient practices of faculty mentors of undergraduate research (UR) as indicated in the extensive literature of the past two decades on UR. The well-established benefits for students involved in UR are dependent, first and foremost, on high-quality mentoring. Mentorship is a defining feature of UR. As more and different types…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Student Research
Kezar, Adrianna J. – 1999
The literature on graduate and professional education reflects many of the trends present in the literature on undergraduate education, including concerns about student learning; transforming the curriculum to be more inclusive; internationalization of the curriculum; incorporation of technology; growth in interdisciplinary education; and outcomes…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Outcomes Assessment