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Hamamra, Bilal; Qabaha, Ahmad; Daragmeh?, Abdelkareem – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
This article employs Foucault's concepts of docile bodies, Panopticism, surveillance and the paradigm of resistance, subversion and containment to delineate the issues of power and control that shored up in online Higher education in Palestinian universities during the outbreak of the pandemic. We propose that the online mode of education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Verniers, Catherine; Martinot, Delphine – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
The aim of the present study was to test whether the content of a gender stereotype concerning general academic achievement matched the characteristics deemed to predict success in the fields of higher education dominated by women and men respectively. A sample of 207 undergraduate students rated the extent to which characteristics ascribed to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Gender Differences
Litzler, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Gender inequality in engineering persists in spite of women reaching parity in college enrollments and degrees granted. To date, no analyses of educational sex segregation have comprehensively examined segregation within one discipline. To move beyond traditional methods of studying the long-standing stratification by field of study in higher…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Engineering