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Sallee, Margaret W. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Based on interviews with 31 academics and 5 nonacademic partners, this article explores the experiences of academics in commuting couples, or those who live apart for work-related reasons. Using identity theory as a guide, this article explores how participants navigate their competing identities of academic and partner (and, for some, parent) to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sex Role, College Faculty, Professional Identity
Yang, Yan; McNair, Delores E. – Gender and Education, 2021
This study explored male teachers' perceptions of their roles in early childhood education and their beliefs about their own professional development in shaping their careers. Although the participants' experiences are strongly influenced by strict gender roles in China, they appear to be consistent with the experiences of men across the globe.…
Descriptors: Asians, Males, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
Arquisola, Maria Jacinta; Zutshi, Ambika; Rentschler, Ruth; Billsberry, Jon – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the mechanisms that explain the complexities Indonesian higher education (HE) academic leaders (ALs) experience in performing leadership roles. The research addresses the questions: How do Indonesian ALs perceive their roles in HE? What are the challenges facing Indonesian ALs in their roles in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Role, Role Perception, College Administration
Yalçin, Yahya Gökhan; Tek, Tolga – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study aims to analyze anxiety, guilt and embarrassment changes of university students who do and who do not do sports depending on some socio-demographic factors. In the study conducted with university students, a total of 585 university students are included, 307 of students whom do sports and 278 of students whom don't do sports. "Beck…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Moral Values, Stress Management
Childs, Cindy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The share of female college and university presidents is on the rise nationwide, changing the face of higher education leadership (American Council on Education, 2017a). A s the face of higher education leadership changes, what does it mean for those females who are currently in the roles or hoping to obtain one? The research question guiding this…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Women Administrators, Administrator Role, Role Perception
Lebuda, Izabela; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
The aim of the article was to investigate how the family life of highly creative individuals--mainly marriages or romantic relationships--is related to their sense of success and well-being. Previous studies have led to conflicting conclusions. The predominant finding has been that marriage and family constitute an obstacle to creative potential…
Descriptors: Creativity, Well Being, Intimacy, Grounded Theory
Al zahrani, Mona – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
The article discusses how young females navigate and develop a solid sense of two worlds in order to be perceived a 'good girl' that can be positioned within the society and maintain the female gender identity that is expected of them in the future. One world is where they are expected to show all the attributes of femininity and beauty and the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Females, Sex Role
Bennett, Clare; Harden, Jane; Anstey, Sally – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Men can play a significant role in teaching their children about sexuality but fathers' practices and perceptions in this domain remain under explored. This study presents an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of eight fathers' perceptions and practices in educating their ten-year-old children about physical maturation, reproduction and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parents as Teachers, Sex Education, Phenomenology
Yaghmaian, Rana; Iwanaga, Kanako; Grenawalt, Teresa Ann; Reling, James; Brickham, Dana; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: Participation is one of the most important interdisciplinary outcome variables in biopsychosocial conceptions of health and disability. While the literature surrounding social and community participation in persons with disabilities indicates that participation is a highly subjective construct, there are few known psychometrically…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Females, Participation
Arar, Khalid – Journal of Career Development, 2018
This article discusses challenges facing novice principals (hereinafter: NPs) and the coping strategies they develop at the inception of their managerial careers. Qualitative research employed semi-structured interviews with 40 principals in the Arab education system in Israel. Findings indicated that Arab NPs face conflicting demands of their…
Descriptors: Novices, Principals, Barriers, Arabs
Odaci, Hatice; Çelik, Çigdem B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
This study examined the relationship between Internet dependence in university students and forms of coping with stress and self-efficacy and investigated whether Internet dependence varies according to such variables as sex roles, gender, and duration of Internet use. The study was performed with 632 university students. The Internet Addiction…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Coping, Stress Variables, Anxiety
Peguero, Anthony A.; Bondy, Jennifer M. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Students' perceptions of justice, fairness, and order within their schools are arguably key building blocks of socialization to participation within a democratic society. The ideals of justice, fairness, and order within their schools are particularly imperative because the educational system is founded on a belief of democracy…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Race, Ethnicity, Gender Differences
Kessels, Ursula; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study seeks to understand boys' lower academic success by analysing the relationship between sex, gender role self-concept, help seeking attitudes, and school performance in a sample of 182 German 11th grade students (83 girls, 99 boys), age 16. Grades at two points in time, intelligence test data, help-seeking attitudes, gender role…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Sex Role, Intelligence
Choi, Pik Lin – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine gender identities of Chinese male and female middle leaders in secondary schools and how gender dynamics play in the leadership process and impact on career aspirations and career development. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on the data of a larger qualitative study conducted using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, Occupational Aspiration, Middle Management
Bynum, Gregory Lewis – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011
Two humanist, critical approaches--those of Dorothy Dinnerstein and Immanuel Kant--are summarized, compared, and employed to critique gender bias in science education. The value of Dinnerstein's approach lies in her way of seeing conventional "masculinity" and conventional "femininity" as developing in relation to each other from early childhood.…
Descriptors: Females, Children, Gender Bias, Science Education