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Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Donovan, Brian M. – Science & Education, 2020
Conflation of sex and gender is implicated in the development of essentialist thinking, which has been linked to the justification of systems of prejudice in modern society. This exploratory study presents findings from a person randomized control trial conducted with 460 students in 8th-10th grade that investigated the extent to which students…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Grade 8
Karama, Muneer Jebreel – Online Submission, 2020
This study examines one of the most important social concepts and perspectives in mathematics textbooks from first grade to 12th grade in Palestine, which is gender bias. To achieve the goal of this study, the researcher conducted a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of an interval sample of these textbooks. Content analysis is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Materials
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Pantic, Katarina; Clarke-Midura, Jody – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: Despite over 30 years of research on broadening participation, women are still underrepresented in Computer Science (CS) education. While enrolment in CS majors has increased, women earn only 18% of the CS baccalaureate degrees in the US. Objective: Most research focuses on why women leave CS. This study explores factors…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Majors (Students), Females, Womens Education
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Islam, Md Asadul; Hack-Polay, Dieu; Rahman, Mahfuzur; Jantan, Amer Hamzah; Dal Mas, Francesca; Kordowicz, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The study examines the personal, social, and organizational barriers facing women in university leadership positions in South Asia, building on the cases of Malaysia and Bangladesh. We discussed the topic through the lens of interactionist feminist theory. Semi-structured interviews with 20 female deans from 12 public universities in Malaysia and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
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Alhawsawi, Sajjadllah; Jawhar, Sabria Salama – Gender and Education, 2023
The Saudi 2030 vision states it is committed to empowering women through education and employment, but the literature scarcely addresses their everyday realities. This paper utilises a critical realist perspective to examine the mechanisms emerging from the interplay of structural and cultural factors that impact women's empowerment concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Womens Education, Females
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Avraamidou, Lucy – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Framed within intersectionality and using science identity as a unit of analysis, in this single case study I explore the barriers, difficulties, and conflicts that Amina, a young Muslim woman, immigrant in Western Europe confronted throughout her trajectory in physics and the ways in which her multiple identities intersected. The main sources of…
Descriptors: Muslims, Barriers, Females, Immigrants
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Camangian, Patrick Roz – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2021
An analysis of praxis can inform how teachers treat lumpen masculinities performed by young Black men, who are some of the most socially defiant and alienated from US schooling and upward mobility, specifically, and other cisgender boys of color, generally. To make sense of heteropatriarchy, toxic masculinity, and urban misogyny in the classroom,…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Males, African American Students, Gender Bias
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Hextrum, Kirsten – Journal of College and Character, 2021
Creating racially just campuses requires dismantling the cultural imperialism of Whiteness--how Whiteness becomes the norm to which all else is measured, compared, and excluded. Little is known about how Whiteness shapes the most prevalent athletic cultures: non-revenue teams. Using critical Whiteness studies and life-history interviews with 47…
Descriptors: Athletes, Whites, College Athletics, Competition
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Sasaki, Keiko – History of Education, 2021
This article explores the Japanese history of women's adult social education after the Second World War and presents a case study of the women's classes held in Chofu City. Under the Allied Occupation following the war, the democratisation of Japan was urgent, and developing women's adult education was indispensable. The newly established Women's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Adult Education, War
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Bereng, Makuena; Mutekwe, Edmore – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The study sought to explore the manifestations and effects of patriarchy in female-led secondary schools in South Africa. The thesis advanced was that despite government initiatives towards gender parity in the employment social structure, the prevalence of patriarchal tendencies continues unabated. Located in the pragmatic paradigm and adopting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Administrators, Secondary Schools, Sex Role
Harkins Monaco, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Fuller, Marcus, Ed.; Stansberry Brusnahan, L. Lynn, Ed. – Council for Exceptional Children, 2021
This book is the 13th in the Prism series, developed by the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities. The Prism series is a collection of volumes that highlight evidence-based research-to-practice teaching strategies and interventions geared toward supporting students with autism spectrum disorder,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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Holland-Smith, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
This research aims to address the paucity of research exploring the impact of formative experiences shaping the trajectory of young people entering higher education outdoor education programmes. Ten participants (n=10) were recruited from a college outdoor education programme this consisted of 6 male (n=6) age range 18-26 and 4 Females (n=4) age…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Higher Education, College Students, Masculinity
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Azad, Mohammad Taghei – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Many studies have investigated how genders were represented in ELT textbooks. A critical part of ELT textbooks are their images, and how they reflect their authors' ideologies have been the subject many studies. In an attempt to contribute to this line of research, the present study aimed to analyze gender representation in the images of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Gender Differences, Ideology
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Moyano Dávila, Camila; Joiko, Sara; Oyarzún, Juan de Dios – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Latin families moving to a different Latin American country are placed in a dominated position by what is called 'coloniality'. In this sense, we argue that the processes of classification (in terms of social class), racialisation and genderisation that migrant Latin families experience when choosing schools for their children in the Chilean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Social Class, Classification
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García-Vita, Ma del Mar; Medina-García, Marta; Polo Amashta, Giselle Paola; Higueras-Rodríguez, Lina – Education Sciences, 2021
Psychosocial factors have a direct impact on the academic achievement of university students, especially when they belong to diverse human groups. This article shows the results of a project developed in a Colombian university with the aim of finding out the identity traits, situations of discrimination, and risk factors faced by students…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Academic Achievement, Social Influences, Foreign Countries
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