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Berila, Beth; Keller, Jean; Krone, Camilla; Laker, Jason; Mayers, Ozzie – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2005
In section I of this article, Beth Berila, director of Women's Studies at Saint Cloud State University (SCSU), St. Cloud, Minnesota, provides a theoretical argument for incorporating Gender Studies into Women's Studies programs, drawing on recent analyses in feminist studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and transnational feminism. In…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Womens Studies, Males
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Swain, Jon – British Educational Research Journal, 2004
The data in this article come from an ethnographic exploration into the construction of masculinities in three junior schools in the UK between 1998 and 1999. The author argues that the construction and performance of masculinity is inextricably linked to the acquisition of status within the school peer group, and he delineates the specific series…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Masculinity, Males, Educational Environment
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Keddie, Amanda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper describes the research approach of a case study ethnography. The study sought to explore the peer group understandings of five male friends aged between six and eight years. In exploring the social dynamics of peer culture, and in particular how these dynamics interacted to define, regulate and maintain particular understandings of…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Young Children, Males, Masculinity
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Endresen, Inger M.; Olweus, Dan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: A limited number of mostly cross-sectional studies have examined the possible effects of power sports on aggressive and antisocial involvement in children and youth. The majority of these studies have serious methodological limitations, and results are partly contradictory. Longitudinal studies with representative, reasonably large…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Males, Antisocial Behavior, Preadolescents
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Rodriguez, Richard T. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2006
The homeboy aesthetic is identifiable as an assemblage of key signifiers: clothing (baggy pants and undershirts are perhaps the most significant), hair (or, in the current moment of the aesthetic, lack of hair), bold stance, and distinct language (think "calo" mixed with hip-hop parlance), all combining to form a distinguishable cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Masculinity, Fantasy, Homosexuality
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Griffiths, Morwenna – Educational Theory, 2006
In this essay, Morwenna Griffiths considers the effect of feminization on the practices of education. She outlines a feminist theory of practice that draws critically on theories of embodiment, diversity, and structures of power to show that any practice is properly seen as fluid, leaky, and viscous. Examining different and competing…
Descriptors: Females, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Practices, Gender Issues
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Lynn, Marvin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
This article offers a portrait of a young black male teacher in an urban school in South Central Los Angeles. In the portrait, the words of the subject are intertwined with the thoughts and reactions of the researcher as a way in which to capture his life history narrative and offer his reading of the world. The article discusses the participant's…
Descriptors: Profiles, Males, African American Teachers, Racial Identification
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Khayatt, Didi – McGill Journal of Education, 2006
This paper examines the interplay between gender and sexuality. In particular, it looks at some reasons why mainstream society cannot bear homosexuality, or any expression of resistance to heteronormativity. The paper also considers what makes schools particularly hostile to teaching or tolerating deviance from set notions of essentialized and…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Gender Issues, Correlation, Social Bias
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Wellard, Ian – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
Although there is much debate about the positive effects of active sporting pursuits for the young, in reality many young people are still excluded or deterred from taking part as much as they would like. There are still particular bodily performances which are considered more suitable for taking part in mainstream sport, and invariably one of the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Racquet Sports, Physical Activities, Children
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Measor, Lynda – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
This paper focuses on the resistance young men show towards consistent condom use. It is based on data generated by peer research that offer information about the distaste young men express about condoms, but also emphasise some of the physical difficulties that young men can experience when using them, which they are less willing to express. The…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexuality, Health Behavior
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Palapattu, Anuradha G.; Kingery, Julie Newman; Ginsburg, Golda S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The present study evaluated gender role theory as an explanation for the observed gender differences in anxiety symptoms among adolescents. Specifically, the relation between gender, gender role orientation (i.e., masculinity and femininity), self-esteem, and anxiety symptoms was examined in a community sample of 114 African Americans aged 14 to…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Orientation, Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna; Zhu, Hong; Liptrot, Jen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
Information technology (IT) has been characterized as central to globalization and nation-states' competitive edge in the global economy. A highly masculinized field, IT is paradoxically characterized as gender-neutral, a field which expands opportunities for women's career and income development. For these reasons, feminist researchers regard it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Females, Gender Issues
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Moorosi, Pontso – South African Journal of Education, 2007
In trying to understand some of the gendered discourses that shape the management of schools as organisations in South Africa, I analyse woman principals' experiences as they try to navigate a balance between their home and work responsibilities. After their appointment as principals, some South African women face difficulties in striking the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Private Schools, Women Administrators
Sadowski, Michael, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, "Who am I?" Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability can complicate this question for young people, affecting their schoolwork and their relationships with teachers, family, and peers. This new edition of "Adolescents at…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Multiple Intelligences, Race, Social Class
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Burke, Penny Jane – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
Raising aspirations has been identified as a key strategy for widening educational participation in lifelong learning policy. This article deconstructs the hegemonic discourse of raising aspirations through Economic and Social Research Council-funded research on men, masculinities and higher educational access and participation.The article…
Descriptors: Males, Lifelong Learning, Academic Aspiration, Higher Education
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