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Taylor Roby Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the unique leadership experiences of queer women in collegiate recreation, focusing on joy as a critical aspect of their professional journey. Employing a narrative inquiry methodology, the research documented the lived experiences of queer women in executive-level roles, exploring the complex intersection of gender, sexuality,…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Females, LGBTQ People, Gender Bias
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Diener O'Leary, Justine; Myers, Erin M.; Lozano, Nicole M. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2022
We examined predictors of rape myth acceptance (RMA) and bystander attitudes among college women (n = 137). Participants completed self-report measures of RMA, bystander attitudes, sexist beliefs, gender-conforming attitudes, sexuality attitudes, sexual knowledge, and just world beliefs. Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that RMA was…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Rape, Misconceptions
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Mkamanga, Esther; Ndala, Ken Kaziputa; Chigeda, Antony – Educational Planning, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate underlining cultural factors impeding girls' secondary education in Lilongwe Rural West Education Division (LRWED) of Malawi. Underperformance of girls in comparison to boys in their education persists. Hence the need to explore the underpinning social-cultural factors is there. The study employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Females, Womens Education
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Eunha Jeong; Jinhyun Kim; Chin Kang Koh – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Sexual health education is mandatory in South Korea. However, gender equality, and the rights of sexuality and gender-diverse people are contentious issues in Korean society. This study describes school health teachers' experiences delivering sexual health education especially in relation to gender equality and the rights of sexuality and gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Health Education, Gender Issues
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Fansher, Ashley K.; Musamali, Tumelo; Self, Madison – Journal of School Violence, 2023
The rise in highly publicized cases of sexual assault, along with offenders in these cases alluding that those alleged victims were being untruthful about their claims, has fostered myths about false reporting of sexual assault, increasing discussions over fears of being falsely accused. This study uses an exploratory approach to identify the…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Rape, Victims of Crime, Fear
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Andrews, Grant – Education as Change, 2020
The recent Must Fall movements shone a light on how South African universities are exclusionary spaces in many respects. In addition to the focus on racial, financial, and epistemological exclusions, the movements also highlighted how gender and sexual minorities are marginalised in university curricula and spaces. In the wake of these movements,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, College Students, Gender Issues
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Hamamra, Bilal; Qabaha, Ahmad; Daragmeh?, Abdelkareem – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
This article employs Foucault's concepts of docile bodies, Panopticism, surveillance and the paradigm of resistance, subversion and containment to delineate the issues of power and control that shored up in online Higher education in Palestinian universities during the outbreak of the pandemic. We propose that the online mode of education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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McGraw, Rebecca; Piatek-Jimenez, Katrina; Wiest, Lynda; Dias, Ana; Lessa Gonçalves, Harryson Júnio; Hall, Jennifer; Hodge, Angie; Kersey, Betsy; Rubel, Laurie – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
The Gender and Sexuality in Mathematics Education Working Group convened in 2018 with a focus on (1) language use, multidimensional understandings of gender and sexuality, and influences of these on methods, results, and interpretations; (2) interactions between gender/sexuality and students' self-perceptions; and (3) the roles of curriculum,…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Sexuality, Mathematics Education
Apugo, Danielle, Ed.; Mawhinney, Lynnette, Ed.; Mbilishaka, Afiya, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2020
"Strong Black Girls" lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America. This edited volume amplifies the routinely muffled voices and experiences of Black women and girls in schools through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The authors make clear that the strength of…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, African American Students, Womens Education
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Kolenz, Kristen A.; Branfman, Jonathan – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
This paper describes and analyses the 'feminist pedagogy of laughter' deployed in an original sex education presentation for college students, entitled Sexual Pleasure, Health, and Safety (SPHS). This work seeks to advance scholarship on liberatory education and humour in education by emphasising how we can use laughter to casually and joyfully…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Teaching Methods, Feminism, College Students
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Svanemyr, Joar; Baig, Qadeer; Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
Young people between the ages of 10 and 19 make up 23% of Pakistan's population. In Pakistan, young people face many challenges in terms of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues. These include early marriage and pregnancy, low use of contraception, use of unsafe abortion, lack of relevant information and poor knowledge about bodily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Youth, Sexuality
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Richardson, Elaine – Gender and Education, 2009
Hegemonic discourses authorise certain ways of being, knowing, and doing. We internalise or appropriate images, patterns, and words from the social activities in which we have participated. Race, gender, sexuality, age, education, class are among aspects of identity (social constructions) that affect our language and literacy acquisition, the way…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Ideology, Sexuality