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Sarvarzade, Somaye; Wotipka, Christine Min – Comparative Education, 2017
Nearly four decades of instability and fragility have led to many changes in the status of women and girls in Afghanistan. Yet, little research focuses on these changes within the education system. To understand the country's stance toward gender issues in formal practice, we examine gender representations in Afghan primary-level Dari language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Females, Gender Issues
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Elks, Martin A. – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2004
The eugenics era (c. 1900?1930) produced a strong desire among mental retardation professionals to recognize and control "the feeble-minded." Some eugenicists believed it was possible to classify individuals visually by learning to recognize what they believed to be observable characteristics of idiocy and imbecility. In this paper I used…
Descriptors: Classification, History, Mental Retardation, Mental Health Workers