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Women Were Created to Serve Differently, Weren't They? The Gendered Identities and Challenges of Female Students in University-Community Engagement
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Gifty Oforiwaa Gyamera; Dora Animwaa Mireku; Vanessa Tsetse – Cogent Education, 2024
Whilst university-community engagement has become an important aspect of modern universities, it often tends to re/produce inequalities and power imbalances, reinforcing stereotypes and negative identities. Much attention on these inequalities has focussed on the experiences of community members. Students' identities and challenges in these…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes
Adult Female Learners' Perceptions of and Experiences with Distance Education at University of Ghana
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Ama Adu-Marfo; Isaac Biney; Moses Kumi Asamoah – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper highlights adult female learners' perception and experiences with blended distance education (DE) program in the University of Ghana. It specifically investigates female students' experiences with male and female tutors' tutoring styles, learner support services, the use of educational technology as well as the extent of the…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes
Determinants of Disparities in Primary School Enrolment in South Sudan
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Amutabi, Cyprian; Agoot, Martha Nyantiop – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite the consensus on the vital role of human capital investment towards a country's socio-economic development, school enrolment levels in South Sudan remain dismal with no empirical study conducted to unravel the same. Using the 2016 South Sudan Frequency Survey data, this study sought to unravel the determinants of primary school enrolment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Unfettering the Ball and Chain of Gender Discrimination: Gendered Experiences of Senior STEM Women in Ghana
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Boateng, Fred Kofi – Cogent Education, 2017
Gender disparities are rife in Ghana and its educational sector. Despite the plethora of research on gender disparities in Ghana's education system, there is no coverage on gender disparities in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields in Ghana. The paper's purpose of the article was to examine the experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, STEM Education