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Martinez-Roldan, Carmen M. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
This article presents a case study of young bilingual students' discussions of literature in a second-grade Spanish/English bilingual classroom in the US. Sociocultural, critical, and Chicana feminist perspectives informed an analysis of the ways the children worked at understanding, marking, and resisting gender boundaries. This critical…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Students, Picture Books, Bilingual Education
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Patitu, Carol Logan; Hinton, Kandace G. – New Directions for Student Services, 2003
This chapter explores factors of concern for, and overall experiences of, African American female faculty and administrators, including salary issues, affirmative action, racism, sexism, homophobia, campus climate, isolation, tenure and promotion processes, and salary. The data reported here were gathered during a study of African American women…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Women Faculty, Homosexuality, Affirmative Action
Ahmed, Manzoor; Ahmed, Kazi Saleh; Khan, Nurul Islam; Ahmed, Romij – Online Submission, 2007
This country analytical review examines the key issues in access to and participation in primary and secondary education in Bangladesh, with a special focus on areas and dimensions of exclusion. Against a background of overall progress, particularly in closing the gender gap in primary and secondary enrollment, the research applies a conceptual…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Enrollment Trends, Educational Quality, Intervention
American Political Science Association (NJ1), 2005
In March 2004, the National Science Foundation funded a two-day workshop by the American Political Science Association (APSA) on the advancement of women in academic political science in the United States. The workshop was prompted by an alarming stall in the number of women entering the discipline and persisting through early years of faculty…
Descriptors: Workshops, Females, Tenure, Social Scientists
Froschl, Merle, Comp.; Sprung, Barbara, Comp. – Academy for Educational Development, 2005
Raising and educating healthy boys is an area of increasing concern among educators, child development experts, and parents nationwide. It was the focus of an invitational meeting convened by the Educational Equity Center at the Academy for Educational Development (EEC/AED) in November 2004. The meeting brought together a national group of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Violence, School Culture, School Psychologists
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Menesini, Ersilia; Fonzi, Ada; Smith, Peter K. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
We compared how teachers and pupils in Italy take into account different dimensions of bullying behaviour, such as intentionality, imbalance of power, repetition and typology of aggression, in relation to bullying behaviours, and investigated the attribution of meaning that teachers and pupils give to a set of terms frequently used to connote this…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, Focus Groups, Cartoons
Banks, James A.; Banks, Cherry A. McGee – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
With this collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, the reader can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. The reader will explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, High Stakes Tests, Test Use, Social Class
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Engineering
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Academic Persistence
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Baki, Roula – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
This article examines the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's gender-segregated higher education system and how it is used to transmit the Kingdom's traditional societal expectations to the employment sector. With Saudi Arabia's current need for economic change, the education system is retarding instead of accelerating reform. A background consisting of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Global Approach, Labor Market
Morrisson, Christian; Jutting, Johannes – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2004
Donor agencies and policy makers tend to agree that increased access of women to education, health, credit, formal legal rights and employment opportunities, in conjunction with economic growth, will substantially improve the socio-economic role of women in developing countries. This paper challenges that view. It argues that these measures might…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Females, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This August 13, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Don't Be That Guy" (Ben-Al, Sarah; Sterritt, David); (2) "A Diverse…
Descriptors: Career Development, Higher Education, Diversity (Faculty), Sociology
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Bothman, Susan M., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Literacy Education, Global Approach, Curriculum Development
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Saralieva, Zaretkhan Khadzhi-Muratovna; Balabanov, Sergei Semenovich – Russian Education and Society, 2004
In connection with the changes in the structure of the work force that took place in Russia in the final ten years of the twentieth century and the increase in professional, intersectorial, and other kinds of labor mobility, the problem of the replacement and reproduction of cadres of top qualification (candidates and doctors of science) has come…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Occupational Mobility, Labor Force
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Hughes, Robin L.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F. – New Directions for Student Services, 2003
This chapter continues and expands the dialogue regarding the oppressions experienced by African American women in higher education. Stakeholders of postsecondary education are invited to use this dialogue to become more aware of the needs of African American women on college campuses, as well as African American people in general.
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Social Bias, Womens Education
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