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Holcomb-McCoy, Cheryl – Corwin Press, 2007
School counselors can play a powerful role in closing the achievement gap when they incorporate the principles of social justice into their practice. In this much-needed resource for preservice and inservice counselors, the author addresses factors (such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism) that can contribute to academic failure, and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Academic Failure, School Counselors, Justice
Jin, Xiaoyi; Li, Shuzhuo; Feldman, Marcus W. – Rural Sociology, 2007
Using data from two surveys in three counties among which the prevalence of uxorilocal marriage varies greatly, this paper analyzes effects of marriage form, as well as individual, family, and social factors on son preference in the context of strict birth control in rural China. It is shown that, under the Chinese patrilineal joint family system,…
Descriptors: Contraception, Females, Incidence, Pregnancy
Wentling, Rose Mary; Thomas, Steven P. – Online Submission, 2004
There is a major concern about the drop of young women entering Computer Science degree programs and a drop in the participation of women in these information technology occupations. In all levels of educational institutions across the nation, girls and women remain under-represented in computer and information science studies and subsequently,…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Science Education, Information Technology, Womens Education
Archer, Louise; Francis, Becky – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
This paper examines the ways in which British Chinese pupils are positioned and represented within the popular/dominant discourse of teachers working in London schools. Drawing on individual interviews from a study conducted with 30 teachers, 80 British Chinese pupils and 30 Chinese parents, we explore some of the racialised, gendered and classed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Sex Stereotypes, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
Dancer, Diane; Kamvounias, Patty – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
This article describes a project designed to ensure that class participation in a large introductory commercial law course is assessed fairly and reliably. The subjectivity often associated with this type of assessment is minimized by involving students in the specification of clear criteria and the assessment process as they were asked to assess…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Adams, Eve M.; Cahill, Betsy J.; Ackerlind, Stacy J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
Eight Latino lesbian and gay (LG) youth were interviewed for this descriptive qualitative study. The purpose of this study was to examine the Latino LG youth career development process and to increase our understanding of how multiple identities intersect with each other and the career development process. Six themes emerged: knowing you are…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Homosexuality, Career Development, Qualitative Research
Matteson, Alicia V.; Moradi, Bonnie – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
The current study reexamined the factor structure of the Lifetime and Recent scales of the Schedule of Sexist Events (SSE; Klonoff & Landrine, 1995) and conducted the first factor analysis of the SSE-Appraisal scale ( Landrine & Klonoff, 1997). Factor analyses conducted with data from 245 women yielded, for SSE-Lifetime and SSE-Appraisal scales,…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Gender Bias, Psychometrics, Females
Brown, David; Evans, John – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2004
Drawing on illustrations from a recent life history study that focused on male student teachers as they negotiated their way through a 1-year postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) physical education teacher training course at a university in England, this paper explores how teachers are implicated in the social construction of gender…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Males, Physical Education, Foreign Countries

Szymanski, Dawn M. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 2005
Feminist therapy theorists have made significant contributions to enhancing counselors' understanding of how social, economic, political, and institutional factors affect women's lives and the particular problems that women bring to counseling. Two of the central tenets of feminist therapy theory are the concept of an integrated analysis of…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Feminism, Homosexuality, Gender Differences
Horton, Julie; Scott, Dominic – Multicultural Education, 2004
While multicultural education remains a work in progress, many of the cornerstones are already in place. Racism, classism, sexism, equity, and social justice issues feature as generative themes (Freire, 1970), which underpin this educational project. One area of research in multicultural teacher education that this article investigates is the way…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism
Moradi, Bonnie; Subich, Linda Mezydlo – Counseling Psychologist, 2003
Conceptualizations of the role of racism and sexism in African American women's lives suggest that racism and sexism may have unique and interactive links to psychological distress. Path analysis was used to examine concomitantly these links for a sample of 133 African American university and community women. Respondents' self-reported experiences…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Path Analysis, Gender Bias
Blok, Henk; Otter, Martha E.; Overmaat, Marianne; de Glopper, Kees; Hoeksma, Jan B. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2003
Most teachers in developed societies use ready-made programs to teach initial reading. The present study compares the effects of 3 such programs, covering 70% of the market. Programs differed with respect to their student versus whole-class orientation and the availability of teaching materials. The program outcomes investigated were Word Reading,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Literacy, Immigrants
Blessing, Benita – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
In this article the author discusses that, at the end of World War II, German educational administrators in the Soviet occupied zone of their nation decided to implement coeducation; that is, the schooling of girls and boys in the same classroom. This policy represents a radical break with German educational traditions, as well as with the western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Action, Educational Change, Coeducation
Petersen, Amy – Disability & Society, 2006
This qualitative study explores the educational experiences of an African-American adult woman with disabilities. The intersections of gender, race and disability are theorized through the lenses of disability, feminist and critical theory. Specifically, I address the following three questions. What are the experiences of an African-American woman…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Equal Education, Disabilities, Educational Experience
US Agency for International Development, 2009
The Doorways training program was designed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) to enable teachers, community members and students to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Teachers can play a central role in violence prevention, and they can also help…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Prevention, Faculty Development, Reference Materials