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Peterson, Shelley; Childs, Ruth; Kennedy, Kerrie – Assessing Writing, 2004
This study examined the possible gender differences in teachers' scoring and written feedback on two narrative and two persuasive writing samples sent to 108 grade six teachers throughout one Canadian province. Participating teachers read a narrative and a persuasive piece of writing from one boy, and a narrative and persuasive piece written by…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Females, Scoring
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Japinga, Jeffrey; DeMoor, Robert – Religious Education, 2003
In this article, the authors discuss Karen Cross's critique on LiFE (Living in Faith Everyday) curriculum. Cross's critique focuses on the following issues: (1) racism; (2) sexism; (3) classism; (4) suburbanism; (5) Reformed theology; and (6) method. To respond to Cross's critique is an invitation for everyone to examine not only one particular…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Philosophy, North Americans, Integrity
Hatt-Echeverria, Beth; Urrieta, Luis, Jr. – Educational Foundations, 2003
In an effort to explore how racial and class oppressions intersect, the authors use their autobiographical narratives to depict cultural and experiential continuity and discontinuity in growing up white working class versus Chicano working class. They specifically focus on "racializing class" due to the ways class is often used as a copout by…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Working Class, Social Class, Racial Factors
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Perrillo, Jonna – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
The author discusses the case of Rose Freistater, a teacher at James Monroe High School. Freistater's application for her teaching license was rejected by the New York City Board of Examiners due to overweight. Although a number of overweight and underweight teachers were rejected by the Board of Education in the ten years that the standards had…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Certification, Obesity, Teacher Qualifications
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Greatorex, Jackie; Bell, John – Research in Education, 2004
For many years there has been concern about whether sex bias exists in various assessments. A literature review reveals little if any sex bias in UK national assessments at GCSE. Oxford, Cambridge and RSA examiners, for three case study subjects, completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a self-report inventory that measures the extent to which…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Examiners, Sex Fairness, Gender Bias
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Seals, Greg – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2006
Jane Roland Martin's later work, especially as represented in "The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families," has been attacked as vague, essentialistic, and a formula for the (re)feminization of education. This paper does not attempt to defend Martin against these criticisms because such a defense seems impossible for…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Social Justice, Epistemology
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Asimeng-Boahene, Lewis – Education, 2006
Over the past years, a large body of scholarly literature has developed to address gender inequity in the developed world, and suggestions for reducing the gender gap are well documented in the literature. However, still lacking in research is why there is gender inequity in mathematics and science education in African schools. Girls are not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Gender Bias
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Noddings, Nel – Theory and Research in Education, 2006
Two of Susan Moller Okin's articles are discussed: "Reason and feeling in thinking about justice", "Ethics" 99(2), 1989: 229-49 and "Mistresses of their own destiny: group rights, gender, and realistic rights of exit", "Ethics" 112(2), 2002: 205-30. Her argument on the foundation necessary for Rawls's…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Government Role, Cultural Differences, Ethics
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Whitehead, Joan M. – Teacher Development, 2006
Drawing on a number of fields of educational research this article argues that girls come to school better prepared to meet its demands than boys. Parents encourage different skills in their children, as a result girls have more sophisticated communication skills, and are more likely to have been encouraged to participate in intellectual tasks…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Student Motivation, Communication Skills
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). "Doorways I: Student Training Manual on School-Related Gender-Based Violence…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Definitions, Prevention
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Ginsberg, Alice – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2005
This paper focuses on the evaluation of programs and policies designed to promote gender equity in schools and to raise awareness in general about gender issues in urban education. It raises the following problems: (1) How to frame and define gender as an important issue in urban education; (2) How to decide where and by what criteria to…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Urban Education, Gender Issues
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Wolford, Karen M. – Journal of Education Finance, 2005
Gender discrimination and wage inequity remain problems worldwide. In the United States and Canada, where equal rights and protective legislation have been in place for nearly 40 years, glaring disparities in salaries and job opportunities remain. Similar problems have been studied in the United Kingdom, leading to enactment of the 1975 Sex…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Salary Wage Differentials, Wages
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Kjeldal, Sue-Ellen; Rindfleish, Jennifer; Sheridan, Alison – Gender and Education, 2005
A glass ceiling for women still exists in academia after two decades of equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation in Australia. There are complex factors that when combined make gender inequity in the higher education sector highly resistant to change. Using personal histories as a reflexive device, the paper makes explicit the embedded male…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Sex Fairness
Thompson, Jane – Adults Learning, 2005
The most serious long-term problem facing the world at the moment is not terrorism but the desperate level of poverty and inequality endured by those living in the Global South--due in part to environmental problems created by the unsustainable abuse of natural resources. By the late 1990s there was a growing consensus that the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Equal Education
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Tubbs, David L. – Academic Questions, 2004
If there was one theme essential to the historical scholarship of Stanford professor Susan Moller Okin, it was the oppression of females. In imbuing political theory with feminism, Okin wrote, for instance, that modern American women are "second-class" citizens in a society where biological differences should count for nothing. Such declarations…
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Scholarship, Misconceptions
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