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Marjo Nieminen – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article focuses on the occupational emancipation of women in Finland and examines the professional careers of women who graduated with a matriculation examination from three upper secondary girls' schools during the period of the 1890s to the 1910s. One of the schools was for Finnish-speaking girls, and two of the schools were for…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Foreign Countries, High School Graduates
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Hill, Heather; Warren, Markita; Jacobs, Charlotte E. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: An increasing body of literature reveals how systems of racism, sexism, and classism intersect to marginalize Black girls in contexts of schooling. Few studies have explored this topic from the perspectives of Black girls in all-girls independent schools pursuing antiracist school reform. Purpose/Objective/Research…
Descriptors: Race, Student Experience, African American Students, Females
Jo-Anne Hurlston – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study is to expound upon the research conducted by R.L Brown (2004), W. Dygert (2000), J.T. James (2009), M. Daniels (2013) and B. Regan (2015). Their focus was to look carefully at the President-Principal Model (PPM) in order to better understand the efficacy of introducing this administrative team structure to…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Presidents, Principals, Private Schools
Moody, Joseph M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Prior research suggested that all students were not treated equally in the educational setting and that boys perform better than girls on standardized tests. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine how class composition affected performance on the math section of the Educational Records Bureau (ERB) test and Preliminary SAT (PSAT)…
Descriptors: Students, Females, Mathematics Achievement, Success
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McKnight, Lucinda; Variyan, George; Charles, Claire – Gender and Education, 2023
This article shares findings from a small, largely qualitative empirical study of elite Australian boys' school alumni's perspectives on feminine gender and gender justice. The article focuses on the purported absence in these men's memories of learning about gender at school and the paradox that the research interviews are full of gender-related…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Alumni, Attitudes, Gender Issues
Waldman, Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student input is usually limited to expression, while collaboration and leadership increase student engagement and investment. This study sought to collect and elevate the voices of students from a small school for girls in rural East India. Participants included staff and former students. During multiple cycles of data collection, participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Single Sex Schools, Females
Franklin C. Parmar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Catholic schools are founded upon distinctive values; they shape school leaders' leadership approaches, which in turn influence the school community experienced by students. Yet, research is sparse where leaders' intentions intersect with the actual community. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how school leaders' approaches…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Alumni, Single Sex Schools, Catholic Schools
Kelsey C. Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines women's colleges emergence as new organizational types in higher education in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In building these colleges, administrators both deviated from societal norms and values about gender and race while conforming to others. They pushed for women's place in advanced education without betraying…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Single Sex Schools, Educational History
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Hahn, Yong-Jin; Jeon, Min-Ho – History of Education, 2023
This article discusses women's education in Modern Korea (1876-1945) by focusing on Cho Dong-Sik ([Korean characters omitted], 1887-1969), the founder of Tongwon Girls' School (Tongwonuisuk, [Korean characters omitted]) in 1908. When this school merged with Tongdok Girls' School (Tongdokyohakgyo, [Korean characters omitted]) in the following year,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Educational History, Single Sex Schools
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Garry Falloon; Michael Stevenson; Vesife Hatisaru; Derek Hurrell; Marie Boden – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
Improving learning through interdisciplinary STEM has come to the forefront of educational discourse, as schools attempt to attract more students to STEM study. However, little is known about how successful STEM curricula are established and sustained. This study details the establishment and sustaining of an exemplary STEM learning ecosystem in a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Ecology, Secondary School Students, Females
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M. Wade Mahon – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Susan M. Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological, qualitative study was to explore how female math teachers build female high school students' math confidence in all-female high schools in the United States. The study aimed to share female math teachers' experiences around how they build female students' math confidence in the classroom. A review of the…
Descriptors: Females, Mathematics Teachers, Single Sex Schools, High Schools
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Variyan, George; Wilkinson, Jane – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper details the gendered oppressions of young female teachers in three elite boys' private schools in Australia. Drawing on Foucauldian analytics and the theory of practice architectures, we explore the discourses and practices that work together to silence and disempower female teachers in these schools. There is an unevenness in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools
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Hannigan, Shelley; Wickman, Per-Olof; Ferguson, Joseph Paul; Prain, Vaughan; Tytler, Russell – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
In this paper, we analyse results from one classroom session within an 8-week program in which Year 10 students constructed 'trash' puppets of endangered Australian animals. In making the puppets and using them as part of a 'theatre in a suitcase' performance at Melbourne Zoo, students were expected to integrate both scientific and artistic goals…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Science Education, Art Education, Foreign Countries
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Khanfar, Asmaa Radi – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Despite the fact that establishing a culture of teamwork among students is one of the most important functions and duties of the school, very few studies have addressed this issue in Saudi Arabia. This study investigates the role of all-female schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in promoting a culture of teamwork among its students from the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teamwork, Public School Teachers, Cooperative Learning
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