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Direct linkFinch, Lindsey; McCreight, Bernadette; McAleavy, Gerry – Pastoral Care in Education, 2010
Recent educational policies have altered scholastic experience. It is the contention of the authors that contemporary school experience may therefore, for some individuals, be distressing. This study is concerned with the identification of stress-related behaviours of sixth-form pupils within female single-sex, selective, scholastic environments.…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
Gold, David – History of Education Quarterly, 2010
Scholars have long debated the complicity of Southern white women after the Civil War in helping create a racialist and racist regional identity and denying or delaying civil rights for African Americans. These studies have largely focused on the activities of elite white women property owners, club members, and writers. Yet few scholars have…
Descriptors: Race, Student Attitudes, Females, Racial Attitudes
Martin, Janet; Birks, Jane; Hunt, Fiona – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Librarians from Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) report on an empirical evaluation of the relevance and value of Infoasis (http://www.zu.ac.ae/infoasis), a Web-based information literacy tutorial developed and tailored to the Arab student population of the Emirates. After the successful implementation of this project, questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Tutorial Programs
Peer reviewedFrost, Susan H. – National Academic Advising Association Journal, 1990
At two women's liberal arts colleges, freshman (n=127, n=140) perceptions of academic advising style were measured. Although students reported developmental advising at both institutions, the mean score at one college was significantly more developmental than at the other. Frequency of contact and an academic planning component were significant…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques, Developmental Programs
Phillip, Mary-Christine – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1993
Explores why women's colleges, and the education provided by them, are different than coeducational settings. The article explains how women's colleges provide students with value and respect and give them a sense of ownership. It also discusses why women's colleges excel at preparing students for the future. (GLR)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment
Inness, Sherrie A. – 1995
This book examines the many popular representations of student life at women's colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era. According to the book, in hundreds of college novels, newspaper accounts, popular periodical essays, and scientific treatises, the "college woman" was described and defined in a period when…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Females, Fiction
