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Harford, Judith; O'Donoghue, Tom – Gender and Education, 2021
Historically, patriarchy has been as dominant in education in Ireland as elsewhere. In the Irish context, it was promoted through the male-dominated Catholic Church, which controlled either directly or indirectly the vast majority of education institutions in the country. This dominant hegemony was most powerful during the period…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Resistance (Psychology), Catholics
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Brandon Kramer; Tohru Matsuo; Aaron C. Sponseller; Young Ae Kim; Suzuka Nishiyama; Stuart McLean – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
For many teachers and administrators, the degree to which attrition over summer vacation represents a threat to instructed language acquisition remains unclear. In a previous study, Kramer et al. (2019) looked at receptive vocabulary knowledge attrition over summer vacation, found no evidence of attrition using these measures, and called for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, Knowledge Level, Achievement Gains
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Zahid, Madiha; Khanam, Afifa – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2019
The present research aims to examine the effect of reflective teaching practices on prospective teachers' performance. Reflective teaching practice helps teachers to plan, implement and improve their performance by rethinking about their strengths and weaknesses. An experimental study within an action research was conducted by the researchers. All…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching
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Auguste, Elizabeth; Packard, Becky Wai-Ling; Keep, Alexandra – NACADA Journal, 2018
Nontraditional women students, defined as older than 24 years, parents, or veterans, compose a fast-growing higher education population. Many face identity-related challenges when interacting with advisors. From 2 northeastern U.S. women's colleges, 42 nontraditional women students participated in phenomenological interviews focused on their…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Females, Student Experience, Academic Advising
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Munir, Hina; Iqbal, Muhammad Zafar – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2018
The focus of the present study was to investigate the relationship between leadership styles of principals and job satisfaction of teachers in women colleges in the province of Punjab. This study was designed to identify the leadership styles of principals practiced by them in colleges for women and to find out the relationship between leadership…
Descriptors: Correlation, Leadership Styles, Principals, Job Satisfaction
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AlHajri, Lamia; Mohamed, Heba M. – SAGE Open, 2022
COVID-19, which has become a worldwide pandemic, prompted various healthcare organizations to take measures to stop or slow its spread. These measures require behavioral change. According to the health belief model, knowledge and awareness are needed to establish an assessment of threat and determine whether a behavior will be changed. Since the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Knowledge Level
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Allendoerfer, Cheryl; Veilleux, Nanette; Floyd-Smith, Tamara; Plett, Melani; Wilson, Denise; Bates, Rebecca; Jones, Diane Carlson – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
This study examines student-faculty relationships at a small women's college where STEM students rely almost exclusively on faculty members for academic support. Students at comparison schools, including two of similar size, rely primarily on peer study groups. To understand this difference, students and faculty interviews, classroom observations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Single Sex Colleges, STEM Education, College Faculty
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Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle; Forbes, Jacqueline M.; Rogers, Shelby; Reavis, Tangela Blakely – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Some campuses are exemplars for best practices for racial inclusion in higher education, and they offer a vital opportunity to understand how to better include Black students. This critical life story analysis of Black college alumnae who graduate from a historically Black, women's institution, Spelman College, demonstrates the importance of…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Alumni, Black Colleges
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James, Aleya; Shammas, Nicole M. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
Set in an all-female higher education (HE) institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this paper argues that a caring, teacher-student relationship, based on mutual interdependence working towards reciprocal relationship of self-as-other, is central to students' academic success. Drawing on an ethics of care we reinterpret mutually held…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring, College Faculty
Kamauf, Renée – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Over the past several decades, women's colleges have increasingly become coeducational or have closed completely due to declining enrollment. With just 37 women's colleges remaining in the United States as of Fall 2016, the researcher explored how these institutions marketed to prospective students using viewbooks. This qualitative dissertation…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education, Student Recruitment, Qualitative Research
Flowers, Deidre Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation is a study of Bennett College for Women (Bennett College), one of two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) whose mission continues to be the provision of higher education to Black women in America. It is one of just over one hundred HBCUs still operating in the United States. This dissertation tells the story of…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Females, Black Colleges, Womens Education
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Taylor, Terumi Anne – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2019
Mentorship is an important development process with individual and institutional benefits. Few postsecondary institutions offer faculty mentorship programs, despite their benefits for women and underrepresented groups and utility in promoting effective institutional leadership. In order to develop sustainable mentoring programs in diverse…
Descriptors: Ethics, Mentors, Caring, Single Sex Colleges
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Westerlund, Heidi; Karlsen, Sidsel; Kallio, Alexis – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
Embracing an ethos of sharing music and practices across cultural boundaries, the multicultural vision of music (teacher) education has paid scarce attention to the paradox of freedom that arises between such freedoms and the complex politics that frame and constrain teachers' choices and values. In this article, we explore these demands of…
Descriptors: Females, Teacher Education, Judaism, Music Education
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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2020
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men's colleges and men to women's colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Females
Mebane, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2019
American women in the 21st century have more options from which to select a college education than in the past, yet there are some women who purposely select a women's college. This study examined the culture of women's colleges, specifically Spelman College, a Historically Black Women's College (HBWC) in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by White…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Feminism, Case Studies, Single Sex Colleges
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