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Evaluation of Life Sciences and Social Sciences Course Books in Term of Societal Sexuality
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Aykac, Necdet – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2012
This study aims to evaluate primary school Life Sciences (1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades) and Social Sciences (4th, 5th, and 6th grades) course books in terms of gender discrimination. This study is a descriptive study aiming to evaluate the primary school Life Sciences (1st, 2nd, 3rd grades) and Social Sciences (4th, 5th, and 6th grades) course books…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Gender Discrimination, Sex Fairness, Biological Sciences
"Boys Will Be Boys": What Do Early Childhood Teachers Have to Do with It?
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Bhana, Deevia – Educational Review, 2009
This paper focuses on the ways in which a selected group of early childhood teachers in grades one and two, located in a predominantly white middle-class context in Durban, South Africa ascribe meaning to young boys they teach. The study finds that early childhood teachers are bearers of masculinity and incorporate taken-for-granted assumptions of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Males
Implications of Overweight Onset and Persistence for Social and Behavioral Development between Kindergarten Entry and Third Grade
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Gable, Sara; Krull, Jennifer L.; Chang, Yiting – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The current study examines the social and behavioral development of school-age children with different histories of overweight onset. Eight thousand children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) participated. Three groups of children were identified for analysis: (1) those who were persistently overweight from…
Descriptors: Obesity, Family Characteristics, Children, Kindergarten