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Download full textJehan Alghneimin; Attila Varga; Monika Kovacs – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
In recent years, the integrated approach of STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has been adopted in the Middle East to improve students' scientific capacities and their formative thinking. Nevertheless, this approach encounters complications in the application, including many due to gender differences. Middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Direct linkDarawsheh, Wesam. B. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Aim: There are limited studies conducted to explore the social attitudes towards PWDs in Jordan. The aim of this study was to compare public attitudes towards physical, visual, auditory, and intellectual disabilities in the five components of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) which are, education, health, livelihood, social, and empowerment.…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Physical Disabilities
Al-Shboul, Yasser; Abumahfouz, Adnan – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study aims to investigate the differences in the understanding of how to give advice among Jordanian male and female students at Al- Balqa' Applied University (henceforth, BAU). In addition, it aims to provide explanations of these prominent differences between the two participating groups. Hinkel's (1997) Multiple Choice Questionnaire (MCQ)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes
Kubow, Patricia K. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
Jordan, along with Lebanon, has the greatest influx of Syrian refugees in the world. To address the issue of overcrowding in schools, a double-shift system operates in Jordan, whereby Jordanian students receive schooling in the morning; and Syrian and other refugee students, in the afternoon. The purpose of this article is to examine the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Educational Environment, School Schedules
Islam, Samira I. – World Journal of Education, 2017
In most countries of the world, 40 to 50 % of students are women. However, there is greater sex imbalance in STEM fields. Indicators show that tertiary education in Arab region is high compared with gender balance in several countries; there is even imbalance in favor of women as in Saudi Arabia & Gulf States. UNESCO and World Bank statistics…
Descriptors: Arabs, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
Alla-Mensah, Joyceline; Henderson, Holly; McGrath, Simon – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Due to its close links to the labour market, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) can play an important role to improve job opportunities and livelihoods for young people, and in particular for disadvantaged youth. However, this potential is not always fully realized, and relatively little research and evidence has been collected…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Barriers, Access to Education
Abushihab, Ibrahim – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The paper investigates the issue of dialect and cultural contact among Jordanians living in Irbid city in the north of Jordan. The objective of the paper is to find the extent of dialect and cultural shift and maintenance among them. The data are collected by means of interviews and observations. A sample of 100 participants has been selected on…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Background, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
Abu-Tineh, Abdullah – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
Senior leadership positions in Jordanian Ministry of Education are held predominantly by men. Women are teachers and/or school principals. This under-representation of women is primarily due to culturally derived stereotypes that see women as teachers or school principals, but not as superintendents. The purpose of this study was to investigate,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Females, Surveys
Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs
Allaf, Carine – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2013
Jordan is viewed as a country of social, political, and economic and advancement. It currently leads the region in literacy rates and is well on its way to achieving gender equity. However, some reports claim that Jordan maintains the widest gender gap in higher education completion in the region while others report that the percentage of females…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness
Manasrah, Mohammad; Al-Delaimi, Zeydan – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This study attempts to investigate politeness in the requests produced by a sample of Jordanian students. The study deals with how they request, the main and supportive strategies and the influence of status, degree of imposition and the difficulty of the task between the requester and the requestee on selecting request expressions and strategies…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Native Speakers
Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
A self-administered questionnaire was filled out by 349 Jordanian men to examine the correlation between their patriarchal ideology and their beliefs about wife abuse. The results revealed that high percentages of Jordanian men tended to justify wife abuse, to blame women for violence against them, and to believe that women benefit from beating.…
Descriptors: Spouses, Family Violence, Questionnaires, Correlation
