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Direct linkIbnu, Ireena Nasiha; Azman, Norzaini – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
This paper explores the transnational trajectories of female Malaysian Muslim students through their commitment to piety-minded forms of Islam. In particular, it seeks to identify the reasons for their participation in piety movements and its importance to their lives. The ethnographic research, conducted over 8 months, involved 18 Malaysian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Muslims, Islam
Islam, Md Asadul; Hack-Polay, Dieu; Rahman, Mahfuzur; Jantan, Amer Hamzah; Dal Mas, Francesca; Kordowicz, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The study examines the personal, social, and organizational barriers facing women in university leadership positions in South Asia, building on the cases of Malaysia and Bangladesh. We discussed the topic through the lens of interactionist feminist theory. Semi-structured interviews with 20 female deans from 12 public universities in Malaysia and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are considered catalysts for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Yet, particularly for STEM fields, girls and women, for a multitude of social, cultural and psychological reasons, engage and participate at a lower rate than boys and men. This research…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Womens Education, Females, Barriers
Download full textYusof, Noraini Md.; Zeiny, Esmaeil – International Education Studies, 2015
As a very controversial issue in Islam, polygamy allows Muslim men to marry up to four wives. It has been told that the Quran encourages polygamy; thus, it is a part of Islamic "Sharia." Many Muslim men practice it at their whim and they contend that they do so to follow the "Sunnah." Amongst Muslim countries, Malaysia is one…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Religious Cultural Groups, Muslims, Marriage
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Peer reviewedGeok-Lin Lim, Shirley – World Englishes, 1990
Examines how twentieth-century Asian women writers have been and continue to be marginalized by gender, by the choice of writing in English, and, when the writer is a member of a minority, by the prevailing majority power structure. The author's recollections of experiences in Malaysia form the basis for discussion. (39 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Authors, English, Females, Foreign Countries
