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Paco Abril; Alba Castellsagué – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
In the field of education, co-education has gained recognition as an approach that seeks to challenge gender stereotypes and promote egalitarian relationships. At the same time, the feminist perspective poses a profound critique of patriarchal structures and norms that perpetuate gender inequalities. The school institution has been represented in…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Gender Bias, Feminism, Equal Education
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Isack E. Kibona; Henry E. Nkya – Discover Education, 2024
Quality education has been emphasized by the world Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 17 goals the world set to achieve by 2030. According to the twenty-first century skills, quality education obliges to equip learners to compete in the twenty-first century job market. In addition to enriching enrolment in science, technology,…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Educational Quality, Coeducation, Secondary Schools
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Jular-Alba, Raquel; Martín-Ramos, Clara; Martín-Ramos, Pablo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: In spite of the education reform and the introduction of mixed schools, there are still obstacles to gender equality in Spain. Sexist attitudes and values continue to influence personal development and career choices, limiting women's participation in many spheres. The opinions, beliefs, ideas, conceptions, expectations and personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Sex Fairness
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Kabadi, Sajit U. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2021
Findings from a historiographic case study are reported. Qualitative data was collected from a series of interviews and cultural artifacts exploring the history of the creation of the Regis Jesuit High School, Girls Division- the first American all girls Catholic Jesuit high school. The study traces the process of how Regis Jesuit became a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Catholics, High School Students, Catholic Schools
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Yi Hao; Lisa Milne – William & Mary Educational Review, 2018
As William & Mary celebrates the 100th anniversary of admitting women students as the first public college in Virginia to institute a co-educational system, this paper explores the life and times of the women who have shaped the College's legacy for future women students. In researching the first women at William & Mary, we have found…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Public Colleges, Educational History
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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2020
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men's colleges and men to women's colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Females
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Law, Helen; Sikora, Joanna – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Single-sex schooling is believed to benefit students' academic achievement and girls' engagement in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). The latter is assumed because single-sex environments are meant to neutralise gender stereotypes. Little is known, however, about longer term effects of such schooling. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Gender Bias, STEM Education
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Nieminen, Marjo – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article concentrates on visual sources relating to secondary education, and asks how a collection of photographs can be understood and interpreted as part of the institutional and collective memory of one Finnish girls' school. The photographs were published in the anniversary books of the school. They construct an entirety, where public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Females, Single Sex Schools
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Martínez Virto, Lucía; Rodríguez Fernández, Juan Ramón – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
Not only numerous academic and empirical studies recognise the educational factor as decisive on life and work trajectories, but also its integrating potential and role in the promotion of social cohesion are widely acknowledged. The diversity of current societies, the economic situation and the impact of neoliberal policies represent new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Neoliberalism, Educational Practices
Perkins, Anne G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
"Unescorted Guests" provides a richly detailed portrait of a fundamental change at one US institution: Yale University's 1969 transition from an all-men's to a coed college. This study disputes several dominant narratives about the 1970s youth and women's movements, and deepens our understanding of three core issues in higher education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Educational History, Private Colleges
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Day, Richard; Cleveland, Roger; Hyndman, June O.; Offutt, Don C. – Journal of Negro Education, 2013
The anti-slavery ministry of Rev. John G. Fee and the unlikely establishment of Berea College in Kentucky in the 1850s, the first college in the southern United States to be coeducationally and racially integrated, are examined to further understand the conditions surrounding these extraordinary historical events. The Berea case illustrates how…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Legislation, Colleges, School Desegregation
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Alhazmi, Ahmed; Nyland, Berenice – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
In Saudi Arabia gender segregation is a cultural practice that occurs across all public and private domains. This segregation has shaped the lives of Saudi citizens and is driven socially through cultural and religious discourses and politically through regulation and policy. For Saudi students undertaking their education in western countries, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Foreign Students, Educational Discrimination
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Tormey, Roland; Gleeson, Jim – Gender and Education, 2012
The growing literature on the gendering of citizenship and citizenship education highlights that western notions of "citizenship" have often been framed in a way that implicitly excludes women. At the same time, insofar as feminist writers have addressed citizenship, they have tended to see it in largely local and national terms. While…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Feminism
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Morojele, P. J. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This paper gives prominence to rural teachers' own accounts of gender in three co-educational primary schools in Lesotho. The paper employs the social constructionist paradigm as its theoretical framework. Drawing from ethnographic data (observations and informal discussions), it discusses factors that inform teachers' constructions of gender and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences
Brown, Cory Terrell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Title IX legislation of 1972 was established to promote gender equity among public entities (primarily schools) that utilize federal funding to support and sustain their operation. However, the United States (U.S.) Government developed new regulations for Title IX due to No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This change allowed public school districts…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Sex Fairness
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