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Biraimah, Karen – Comparative Education Review, 1997
Gail Kelly's research on women's education in developing nations enriched scholarship on improving women's quality of life through education. Main strands of inquiry examined how school processes and curricula affect women's educational outcomes (versus men's), the false bifurcation of private and public spheres of women's lives, and how women's…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Research, Females, Feminism
Biraimah, Karen – 1984
A case study of a Togolese secondary school provides the focus for an examination of the impact of Western notions of gender-based role expectations in Third World education. Work on the reproduction of inequality in education suggests that in-school processes direct different knowledge to different groups. However, in the case of Third World…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Educational Research, Equal Education
Biraimah, Karen – 1987
This study attempted to ascertain the degree to which teacher attrition rates may affect future educational trends on a cross-national basis and to identify particular characteristics, such as class, gender, or academic achievement, that might be associated with those teachers electing to leave and those expecting to remain in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations