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Menzies, Fiona G.; Santoro, Ninetta – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This article draws on data from an ethnographic case study that examined how pupils' gendered identities are constructed in one rural secondary school in Scotland. We utilise the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to provide theoretical insight into how and why pupils take up particular gendered positions in school, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Case Studies, Gender Differences
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van Polanen, Marleen; Colonnesi, Cristina; Tavecchio, Louis W. C.; Blokhuis, Susanne; Fukkink, Ruben G. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
In this observational study, male and female professional caregivers' (n = 42) levels of sensitivity and stimulation toward three-year-old children (n = 42) were observed in a semi-structured play situation. Further, sex roles of male and female caregivers were examined with the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Male and female caregivers showed the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Gender Differences, Sex Role
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Gudyanga, Anna; Kurup, Raj – Cogent Education, 2017
The study investigated the influence of identity formation on the perceptions and participation of Zimbabwean Advanced Level (A' Level) female adolescent students in physics. Nine female adolescent students eighteen years and above: three doing mathematics and physics, one doing physics without mathematics and five doing mathematics without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Physics, Adolescents
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Pawlowski, Charlotte Skau; Ergler, Christina; Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine; Schipperijn, Jasper; Troelsen, Jens – European Physical Education Review, 2015
Boys are more physically active than girls and the greatest gender difference in children's physical activity is found in institutional settings such as school recess. However, research on gender relations, performances and practices that maintain gendered differences in physical activity during recess is still limited. Drawing on a qualitative…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Team Sports, Recess Breaks, Qualitative Research
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Humphreys, Sara – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
Drawing on post-structural and post-colonial conceptions of gender, this paper explores multiple student masculinities and femininities in the classrooms of four junior secondary schools in Botswana. These gendered identities, it is argued, are negotiated within broader institutional constraints that have been socio-historically produced. Such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Gender Issues, Masculinity
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Larsson, Hakan; Fagrell, Birgitta; Redelius, Karin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2009
Background: Research on PE indicates that the subject is marked by rather stable gendered patterns of behaviour and perceptions of the subject. This paper marks an attempt to outline a theoretical approach that makes it possible to interpret what is going on in the gym in a way that might challenge the reproduction of gender. Purpose: To…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Sex Stereotypes, Females