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Direct linkOttemo, Andreas; Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna T. – Gender and Education, 2021
Physics- and computer-related disciplines are strongly male dominated in Western higher education. Feminist research has demonstrated how this can be understood as reflecting a strong privileging of mind and rationality (over body/nature/emotions) in these disciplines, which harmonises with broader notions of masculinity as transcendental and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Computer Science Education, Gender Bias
Taber, Nancy – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
This article explores the ways in which military constructions of gender intersect with academic ones. Its focus is to connect military discourses of duty, honour and service before self with academic ones of commitment and productivity. As such, it engages in an institutional analysis of the gendered organizations of the military and academia and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Gender Issues
Download full textTaber, Nancy – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This article discusses a feminist discourse analysis that explores the ways in which discourses of learning interact with discourses of militarism at four Canadian civilian universities named for military leaders. I discuss how this particular research topic became apparent to me and explore the current national context where it can be argued that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Discourse Analysis, Universities
Peer reviewedJames, Carl E. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2003
Examined the commonly expressed ambition of African Canadian male youth to win athletic scholarships to U.S. universities, noting why they believed it was possible to realize these aspirations. Data from conversations with African Canadian male high school basketball players indicated that students used strategies, such as attending the right…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Athletes, Basketball, Black Students
Peer reviewedDas, Mallika; Das, Hari – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 2001
Investigated the relationship between gender and gender role of students and their "best" university professors. Surveys of Canadian college students indicated that there was a strong relationship between students' gender and gender role and the gender and perceived gender role of their best instructors. Masculinity was valued more by…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Faculty Evaluation, Femininity
Marsh, Herbert W.; Byrne, Barbara M. – 1990
Masculinity (M) and femininity (F) were related to multiple dimensions of self-concept (SC) for responses to the: Bem Sex Role Inventory and the Self Description Questionnaire III (SDQ-III) by 898 Canadian university students (61% female) in Study 1, and Australian Sex-Role Scale and the SDQ-II by 1,858 Australian high school students (49% female)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Androgyny, College Students, Femininity
