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Limin Jao; Jennifer Hall; Cinzia Di Placido – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
Research on gender issues and mathematics education is often conducted in classroom settings and/or with teachers, students, and parents. However, perspectives about mathematics from adults beyond teachers and parents can have an impact on students. Thus, we conducted research in Australia and Canada about the general public's views of gender and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes, Public Opinion, Sex
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Beyer, Victoria; Caron, Cynthia M. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2022
Mushing exists in several forms: short and long-distance races, adventure tourism, recreation, and sport. While some scholars assert that gender does not influence a musher's experience, this research, based on interviews with mushers, broadens understanding of how gender influences mushing and a musher's sense of self. Nearly all research…
Descriptors: Athletics, Recreational Activities, Tourism, Gender Differences
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Laura H. VanPuymbrouck; Carli Friedman – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Implicit (unconscious) gender bias and stereotypes can affect clinical decisions and interactions between healthcare professionals, as well as impact careers. However, there is no research exploring the implicit gender bias or stereotypes of occupational therapy students or practitioners. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes, Careers, Inferences
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Bernardos, Alicia; Martínez-Martín, Irene; Solbes-Canales, Irene – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
The study of contemporary youth gender cultures within an educational context illustrates the emergence of new possibilities of self-expression as well as more favourable attitudes towards diversity, at a time when stereotypical gender mandates still persist. This study aimed to deepen understanding of gender identity construction by analysing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, Secondary School Students, Sex Stereotypes
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Gündogani, Asli; Tasdere, Ahmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The aim of the study is to reveal Turkish pre-service teachers' gender perceptions. For this, cognitive structures of pre-service teachers were analysed with minds maps created with the word association test (WAT) and their mental models were analysed by drawing. In this context, a holistic single case study was adopted depending on the purpose of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Sex Stereotypes
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Bone, Jane – Gender and Education, 2019
The concept of domesticity plays out in early childhood educational settings and has a long tradition. Domesticity in its pre-domestic, domestic and post-domestic phases is used here as a site for reconsidering the role of Maria Montessori. The ideas put forward here are intended as a provocation and methodologically the device of constructing an…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Early Childhood Education, Feminism
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Dubisar, Abby M. – Community Literacy Journal, 2021
Beyond growing and selling food, women farmers perform literacy work to establish and maintain legitimacy. As part of a larger interview-based dataset, this article analyzes the literacy practices that one woman farmer, Lauren, undertakes in relation to her legitimacy as a farmer. Informed by literacy studies research and feminist rhetoric…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Females, Literacy, Sex Stereotypes
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García López, Luis M.; Kirk, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
Sport and physical education are considered a powerful tool to empower children from socially vulnerable backgrounds (SVB). The purpose of this study was to analyse coaches' perceptions of the effect of the Sport Education (SE) pedagogical model, and use of the allocation of roles beyond player in particular, on the empowerment of children from…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, At Risk Students, Athletic Coaches
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Leer, Jane; Gassman-Pines, Anna; Djé Blé, Eric; Kainessie, Josephine; Kennedy, Catherine; Press, Sarah; Schubert, Heidi – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study investigated attitudes toward restrictive gender norms among adolescents in Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone (pooled N = 1,793, M[subscript age(baseline)] = 10.3, M[subscript age(follow-up)] = 11.6, 50% boys/girls). We examined individual and contextual predictors of gender attitudes, assessed change in gender attitudes over 2 years, and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Bias, Social Attitudes
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Selvi, Ali Fuad; Kocaman, Ceren – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
The current study examines how gender and sexualities are represented in the ELT instructional materials (i.e., handouts) developed and used "locally" in an Intensive English Program housed at a major state university in Turkey. The findings revealed that these materials stood on the biased end of the gender representation spectrum both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences, Sexual Identity
Nisreen Akram Abdallah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study examines gender representations in Dummett et al. (2016) EFL textbook, Keynote, at Middle Eastern University in the Middle East. Keynote is an EFL textbook that is used to teach students in English for Business I and English for Business II courses. The study followed Fairclough's (1989, 1995, 2001, 2015) three-dimensional models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Textbooks
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Mishna, Faye; Schwan, Kaitlin J.; Birze, Arija; Van Wert, Melissa; Lacombe-Duncan, Ashley; McInroy, Lauren; Attar-Schwartz, Shalhevet – Youth & Society, 2020
Drawing on semistructured interviews with Canadian Grade 4 to 12 students, this article uses a feminist lens to explore gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying among children and youth. Our findings indicate that while boys' roles and behaviors were frequently made invisible, girls were typically spotlighted, blamed, and criticized.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues
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Carrera-Fernández, María Victoria; Cid-Fernández, Xosé Manuel; Almeida, Ana; González-Fernández, Antonio; Lameiras-Fernández, María – Youth & Society, 2021
The bullying phenomenon has been simplified and studied primarily from a psychological perspective. In this study, the phenomenon of bullying was examined by analyzing the joint influence of sociocultural factors such as gender stereotypes, sexism, and attitudes toward sexual and cultural diversity on bullying participation as a bully and a bully…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Sex Stereotypes
Andrus, Shannon; Jacobs, Charlotte; Kuriloff, Peter – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
While some believe there is little need to be concerned about girls in education, they continue to face such ongoing stereotyping, biases, and harassment that follow them into their careers. Shannon Andrus, Charlotte Jacobs, and Peter Kuriloff explore the current state of girls' education and discuss importance of an intersectional lens that takes…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes, Racial Factors
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Callahan, Sarah; Nicholas, Lucy – Gender and Education, 2019
Despite explicit focus on addressing gender inequality in educational settings in Australia, without challenging gender binarism, inequality will persist. This article demonstrates the everyday and implicit means through which hierarchical gender binaries continue to be perpetuated. Observational fieldwork undertaken in three Australian early…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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