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Ramaiah, Kollapudi; Nagamani, K.; Latchaiah, P.; Kishore, Mendam – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Empowerment is the expansion of asserts and capabilities of poor people to participate in negotiate with influence, control and hold accountable institutions that affect their lives. Education is one of the important sources of empowering women with the knowledge, skill and self confidence necessary to participate fully in the development process.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Capacity Building, Social Justice
Fereidouni, Somayeh; Mehran, Golmar; Mansourian, Yasdan – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
In line with global trends, the rate of Iranian female students' enrolment in higher education has increased. However, some policy makers have been concerned about this and without considering the female voice, they have implemented strategies to balance the labour market, which has led to a decrease in female students in certain majors. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Empowerment, Females
Agusiobo, Benedicta Chiwokwu – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
International instruments, declarations and local laws set the pace for appropriate human development, peace and harmony. 10.5 million children in Nigeria are out of school; approximately 60 percent are girls (UNICEF, 2014). They are dropouts due to various factors: socio-cultural, economic, governance etc. vulnerable to forms of abuses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Gender Bias, Cultural Influences
Judith Kallick; Andrea Brown Murga – Institute of International Education, 2018
This report presents the stories and perspectives of alumni of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) in Africa and the Middle East. The Institute of International Education (IIE) is currently administering a 10-year tracking study of this program to capture the personal and professional trajectories of the IFP alumni in their…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Social Change, Social Justice, Higher Education
Cruse, Lindsey Reichlin; Bernstein, Anna – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2020
Sexual and reproductive health and well-being plays a central role in the lives of young adults. Having the ability to plan whether and when to become pregnant, to protect against sexually transmitted infections, and to receive essential medical care during pregnancy, for example, have important effects on young people's lives--including their…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Access to Health Care, School Health Services, Sexuality
Sahni, Urvashi – Research in Drama Education, 2016
This article provides a brief snapshot of a girls school in Northern India called Prerna. Girls in India are unwanted, unequal and unsafe. Every year a million of them are killed in the womb. One third of the world's child brides (read "girl slaves") are in India. They live their lives in a grim, complex context where, gender, poverty…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Single Sex Schools, Females, Disadvantaged
Andrea Fullec; I. Joyce Chang; David Knox – College Student Journal, 2016
Hedonism, as compared to the sexual values of relativism and absolutism, involves sexual behavior based on the pursuit of pleasure without the requirement for love and/or commitment. Analysis of responses to a 37 item Internet questionnaire completed by 391 undergraduate women revealed that thirty-one percent self-identified as being hedonistic…
Descriptors: Females, Undergraduate Students, Sexuality, Social Bias
McArthur, Sherell A.; Muhammad, Gholnecsar E. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12-17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Muslims, Summer Programs
Brumfield, Robin G.; Özkan, Burhan; Vezne, Rabia – Online Submission, 2017
"Suzanne's Project" is a 28-hour program, which began in the Antalya province of Turkey in 2011 to empower small-scale women farmers to manage their farms as a business by training them in computer literacy, technical production topics, and farm business management. A survey 1.5 years after the workshop ended found that all of the women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Agricultural Occupations, Business Administration
Stanley, Darrius A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation explores the depth of the Black educator turnover problem in today's public schools. Black educators across the country have experienced higher than average turnover rates, eroding the success of recent minority teacher recruitment efforts. This epidemic has left the field of teaching consistent with the status quo, white and…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Nimehchisalem, Vahid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
In this article the author writes of having had the pleasure of meeting Datin Goh Suet Lan and one of the key members of her team, Mr. Murali, in the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia with three colleagues, Associate Professor Dr. Shamala Paramasivam (who initiated this meeting), Dr. Ilyana Binti Jalaluddin,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Coaching (Performance), Entrepreneurship
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
There is an increasing focus in transnational campaigns for girls' education and empowerment on highlighting the voices of girls from the global south. These moves are made in response to feminist critiques of said campaigns for not attending to the diverse, multiple and complex lived experiences of girls. This article engages in theorising these…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Females, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Kelly, Lauren Leigh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
This article explores the ways in which females who identify with hip-hop often develop and construct their identities in relation to media representations of blackness and femininity in hip-hop music and culture. In order for educators to support female students in constructing identities of empowerment and agency, they should be willing and able…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Femininity, African American Culture
Sharma, Rashmi – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore women district leader's perceptions of organizational change in a rural women's education and empowerment program in India, using an appreciative inquiry framework. This is a qualitative case study of the Mahila Samakhya (MS) program, which was initiated to provide non-formal education and empower rural…
Descriptors: Females, Administrator Attitudes, Women Administrators, Rural Areas
Schmeichel, Mardi – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
This article explores recently published P-12 social studies lesson plans that include women to examine how attending to women is "getting done" in the field and how the lessons represent women and women's experiences. Using discourse analysis methodologies, the author demonstrates that women have been included as topics in ways that do…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Females, Lesson Plans, Discourse Analysis