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Fidelis Awoke Nwokwu; Prisca O. Bob; Ugochi P. Kwekowe – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
In the 21st century, one of the major roles of the English language in building a corporate youth image for sustainable development, peace, and security in Nigeria is in the area of creative writing. Many scholars are concerned about domestic violence in African society, particularly in Nigeria, especially in Igbo society, where domestic violence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Creative Writing, Females
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Hedley-Carter, Eleri – Teaching History, 2022
As an Early Career Teacher, Eleri Hedley-Carter set out to make the history she teaches in school more reflective of her undergraduate study of history--a discipline that strives to uncover a diverse past through various lenses and historical methods. In addition to expanding her school's curriculum to include an enquiry that centred on African…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Females, African Culture
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Meseret F. Hailu; Maima Chea Simmons – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
In mainstream discourse about immigrant students in the United States (U.S.), the experiences of Black immigrant women in higher education are often neglected. As two Black, immigrant women raised in the U.S. who are familiar with higher education, we have insight into this understudied population. In this qualitative, collaborative…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Acculturation, African Culture, African American Students
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Happy Nkambule; Juliet Perumal – Review of Education, 2024
This paper presents results of a systematic research synthesis of 23 studies on female leadership in Eswatini. The review aimed to present conclusions drawn from synthesising findings from studies on women's participation in leadership in Eswatini. Systematic methods were used in the review to identify the 23 research studies focusing on female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Power Structure, Gender Issues
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Sinfree Makoni; Unyierie Angela Idem; Stephanie Rudwick – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
The decolonization of applied linguistics is a critique of applied linguistics (see Phillipson, 1999; Phipps, 2018 and Pennycook & Makoni, 2020). We argue for a shift toward the Global South, in particular Africa, and for the importance of paying attention to 'race' as a significant category of analysis in applied linguistics in Africa. Three…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Amy Padayachee; Fumane Khanare; Ntombizandile Gcelu; Samantha Kriger; Nomthandazo Buthelezi; Andile Ngidi; Noluthando Hlazo – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
The authors of this paper adopted a transformative framework in this article to examine how the legacy of apartheid continues to manifest within higher education in South Africa. In particular, the authors analyzed (a) how mainstream mentoring knowledge of 'black' and 'marginalized' people have influenced mentoring in post-apartheid South Africa;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Mentors, Higher Education
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Bhana, Deevia; Matswetu, Vimbai – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: Parents play an important role in shaping young people's sexual lives and behaviours with implications for their current and future sexual and reproductive health. This study examined the perspectives of rural Zimbabwean parents on young people's sexual health. Design: Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 19 (6 men…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Population, Parent Attitudes, Health Behavior
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Newman, Anneke – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The link between marriage and premature school-leaving among females in the Global South is a major preoccupation within the field of international development and education, yet theoretically-grounded qualitative scholarship unpacking this relationship remains scarce. This paper uses models developed to conceptualise female agency in constrained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marriage, Females, Dropouts
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Deevia Bhana – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This article focuses on South African teenage girls' engagement with pornography. Using a decolonial approach and drawing upon new feminist materialism, this study focuses on the ways in which bodies, gender and sexuality configure to produce and constrain girls' capacities for sexual expression. The paper makes three claims. First, the article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Pornography
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Inggs, Judith – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
Female characters in many African folktales are often perceived as voiceless and peripheral, playing the role of passive advisors and nurturers in contrast to the physically stronger and more active male characters. Some African scholars have disagreed with this perception, asserting that the female characters are stronger than their male…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Folk Culture, African Culture, Story Telling
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Long, Elenore – Community Literacy Journal, 2022
The women's talking group featured in this article theorizes the community literacy practice of thanduk--"setting something aside"--that members practice together. Sanduk--with an s and translated as Arabic for "box"--has a long, well documented history involving informal, rotary credit and savings associations practiced among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Community
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Pribyl, Jill – Research in Dance Education, 2022
It has been almost twenty years since Namasagali College, a co-educational secondary school in Eastern Uganda, staged its last performance, yet the memory of these musical theater productions are recalled with the nostalgia of a lost renaissance. These transdisciplinary productions that utilized modern dance, acting and mimed songs transformed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Secondary School Students, Theater Arts
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Nwokwu, Fidelis A.; Bob, Prisca O.; Kwekowe, Priscilla U.; Umeh, Cecilia – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
The "Threaded Bead" explores the societal perception of a career woman. This paper, therefore undertakes a linguistic stylistic analysis of the text with the aim of establishing its style in addition to interpreting its meaning. The method used is descriptive and analytical. The work appraises linguistic features such as: the…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Females, Social Attitudes, Grammar
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Ronald Osei Mensah; Andrews Acquah; Daniel Yeboah Mensah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study investigated the home factors affecting the academic performances of girl children in the Dome cluster of schools. A descriptive survey methodology was employed in this research. Through a multistage sample technique, 197 respondents were randomly selected. The primary data for the study were collected using a closed-ended questionnaire…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Junior High School Students, Family Influence
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Reka C. Barton; Darielle Blevins; Marva Cappello – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This article utilizes Black girlhood as a framework in a critical multimodal qualitative inquiry to explore the complexities of representations of Black girls' hair, in picturebooks. Using a data corpus of 55 picturebooks published between 2010-2020, the authors analyzed the multimodal messages embedded in the initial introductions of Black girl…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Human Body, Picture Books
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