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Flores, Tracey T. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
In this article, I explore the narratives and experiences of four Latinx mothers and fathers, Alma, Rose, Valente and Samuel, who participated with their adolescent daughters (grades nine-10), Blanca, Elizabeth, Rocky and Reyna in Somos Escritores/We are Writers writing workshops. Somos Escritores was a family engagement space, created with and…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Child Rearing, Adolescents
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Al-Attiyah, Asma Abdulla M.; Hassanein, Elsayed Elshabrawy A. – International Journal of Special Education, 2017
This study explored human rights for Qatari women with disabilities, challenges and means of empowerment as perceived by females and males both with and without disabilities. The Questionnaire of the Rights of Women with Disabilities (QRWD) was developed using the Articles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Disabilities, Civil Rights
Linabary, Jasmine R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite decades of advocacy, women still struggle to gain access to public spaces, in particular to spaces of power such as formal governance and decision-making processes, economic sites, and media institutions. Globalization has enabled the emergence of transnational feminist organizing in response to these exclusions, yet scholars have largely…
Descriptors: Feminism, Activism, Advocacy, Global Approach
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Odigwe, Francisca Nonyelum; Okoi, Ikpi Inyang; Sule, Mary – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The study investigated the role of women empowerment on societal development in the North East region of Nigeria. Three research questions and hypotheses were used. The population of the study comprised of women within the age bracket of (30-40 years). Purposive and stratified random sampling technique was adopted, and a sample size of 600 women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Geographic Regions
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Lindstrom, Lauren; Hirano, Kara A.; Ingram, Angela; DeGarmo, David S.; Post, Cindy – Journal of Career Development, 2019
Young women with disabilities often experience limited career options and opportunities. This study provides an overview and preliminary results from the "Paths 2 the Future" (P2F) curriculum designed to meet the unique career development needs of young women with disabilities. P2F includes 75 lessons covering topics of self-awareness,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Females, High School Students, Career Education
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Whitney, Erin Hope – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
Much of the special education research on writing has focused on skill acquisition and remediation. However, a significant problem with this approach is that it does not account for the sociocultural nature of writing or the importance of culturally sustaining pedagogies in writing instruction. In this article, the author uses practitioner…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction
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Mirza, Heidi Safia; Meetoo, Veena – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article draws on an analysis of the narratives of teachers, policy-makers and young Muslim working-class women to explore how schools worked towards producing the model neoliberal middle-class female student. In two urban case-study schools, teaching staff encouraged the girls to actively challenge their culture through discourses grounded in…
Descriptors: Females, Student Empowerment, Muslims, Feminism
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Baumgartner, Lisa M.; Sandoval, Carolyn L. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
Our research explored the experiences of educators who teach in a gender-responsive program for women in a jail. We interrogated how educators fostered empowerment in their classes, what their motivations were for teaching in the program, and the tensions that existed for them when using emancipatory teaching practices in jail. Findings indicate…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Correctional Education, Adult Education, Correctional Institutions
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Heinecken, Dawn – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
Advice books by female athletes are among the top selling sports books for young readers in the US. Though they have received little attention to date, sports advice books are important to examine because of how they function as a form of conduct manual instructing girls in specific understandings of female identity. Implying that girls face…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Team Sports, Females, Self Concept
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Florence, Namulundah – Cogent Education, 2016
Folktales serve a descriptive, as well as prescriptive role, by consistently depicting societal and cultural norms. Sexist portrayals sanction the marginality of Bukusu women, particularly when these reflect prevailing gender roles and expectations. However, contests over identity and representation are as ancient as (unwritten) history. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Role Models, Folk Culture
US Agency for International Development, 2016
USAID's commitment to empowering adolescent girls to reach their full potential is reflected in the Agency's larger efforts to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. The Agency holds decades of experience leading advances for greater gender equality and empowerment that benefit adolescent girls; however, these activities have not been…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Empowerment, Equal Education
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McClellan, Patrice A. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This study explores Black girls' perceptions of school and the leadership of a Black woman principal. Portraiture as the methodology was used to understand the nuances of education by interviewing and observing six Black girls. In this article, Black girls are situated as experts and co-constructors of knowledge on what it means to be a Black girl…
Descriptors: African American Students, Women Administrators, Females, African Americans
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Langan, Debra; Hannem, Stacey; Stewart, Catherine – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article engages in a reflexive, critical, analysis, re-examining data from an earlier project that used qualitative interviewing to investigate the experiences of women who came into contact with police because of situations of "verbal abuse." In the present article, we use discursive psychology to explore how the women navigated…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Violence, Females, Verbal Communication
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Broome, Lauren – Parenting for High Potential, 2017
Academically gifted girls often see unrealized and unfulfilled potential as a result of societal pressures to make the choice between being smart and fitting in. Gifted girls face many social issues in their lives that impact their education and interests from a young age. Gender stereotypes may be perpetuated by teachers, who have been shown to…
Descriptors: Females, Academically Gifted, Social Influences, Social Attitudes
Lalla, Shireen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This phenomenological study explored the perceptions and lived experiences of female West Indian immigrant students as they academically and socially acculturated while attending Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Snowball techniques were employed to select 11 female immigrant West Indian undergraduate and graduate students living in southeastern…
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, College Students, Acculturation
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