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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative career pathways and informally acquired skills and knowledge, as well as the operation of gender in learning and work, are acknowledged by employers, colleagues…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Females, Information Technology, Education Work Relationship
Alfred, Mary V., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies for addressing the chronic illiteracy among…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Physical Health, Illiteracy, Adult Basic Education
Zittleman, Karen – Online Submission, 2006
The first-person accounts of over 400 middle school students from five diverse schools suggest that three decades of gender equity efforts have fallen far short of their goals. Contrary to the backlash argument that girls are now the advantaged sex, or the perceptions of many adults that both girls and boys are treated fairly in school today,…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Sex Fairness, Middle School Students
Stake, Jayne E. – Gender & Education, 2006
Women's and gender studies (WGS) classes and programmes have been developed on many university and college campuses around the world. Despite some success in the establishment of WGS in higher education, WGS has been the target of significant criticism. Detractors of WGS have charged that WGS is intellectually frivolous and that WGS teachers focus…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Opinions, Ideology
Van Duzer, Eric – Action in Teacher Education, 2006
A study was conducted to examine the gendered expectations of academic failure among 52 students preparing to enter a teacher-credentialing program at a California state university. As part of a technology class, student pairs completed a database and mail-merge assignment in which they named three imaginary students and identified one of the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Gender Bias, Males, Gender Differences
Craig, Mary E.; Robyak, James; Torosian, Elaine J.; Hummer, John – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
Domestic violence in intimate relationships is a ubiquitous social problem. This study addresses a gap in the research literature on batterers intervention programs with heterosexual male batterers by evaluating whether or not self-reported attitudes about partner abuse and sexist beliefs could be modified over time as a result of participation in…
Descriptors: Veterans, Males, Family Violence, Intervention
Zine, Jasmin – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
The practice of veiling has made Muslim women subject to dual oppressions--racism and Islamophobia--in society at large and patriarchal oppression and sexism from within their communities. Based on a narrative analysis of the politics of veiling in schools and society, the voices of young Muslim women attending a Canadian Islamic school speak to…
Descriptors: Islam, Experience, Muslims, Females
Mahitivanichcha, Kanya; Rorrer, Andrea K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: In this article, the authors highlight three constraints--structural time crisis (Schor, 1991) ideal worker norms (Williams, 2000), and labor and occupational queues (Reskin & Roos, 1990; Strober, 1992)--on the decisions and choices of women seeking to advance to and hold positions in the superintendency. Proposed Conceptual Argument: The…
Descriptors: Females, Superintendents, Career Development, Models
Rhee, Jeong-eun – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
At the location of alter-native researcher in US higher education, the author interweaves two Korean women's transnational narratives that intersect with her autobiographical route. Through this re-narrativization, the paper discusses the material and ideological specificities that place each individual differently in engagements with various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Higher Education, Autobiographies
Choules, Kathryn – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
Educators interested in social change have been using an analysis of privilege in their gender and anti-racist work for some time. Through working with adult Australians in a community education programme on asylum seekers, the applicability of an analysis of privilege to the exclusionary discourses concerning asylum seekers and refugees became…
Descriptors: Social Change, Consciousness Raising, Citizenship, Refugees
Williams, Dana M. – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
The use of Native American nicknames and symbols by US college athletics is a long-standing practice that embodies various forms of authoritarian oppression. One type of authoritarianism is that of patriarchy and it has been present in the struggle over the nickname at the University of North Dakota, the "Fighting Sioux". This article…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Athletics, Racial Bias, Social Influences
Sellnow, Deanna; Treinen, Kristen – Communication Education, 2004
Previous research suggests that college students bring gender biases to their evaluations of male and female instructors. Increasingly, college oral communication classes are utilizing peer evaluation of student speeches. This study of 330 student evaluators at a Midwestern university examined gender bias in student peer evaluations of public…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Speeches, Evaluators, Public Speaking
Flecha, Ainhoa; Oliver, Esther – Convergence, 2004
The Romani community has traditionally been excluded from many spaces of participation, in many cases within the labour market and education. In this article, the authors analyse the situation of the Romani community, focusing especially on the reality of Romi who have been the catalysts of profound change for themselves as women and their…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Social Action, Minority Groups, Popular Education
Duke, Thomas Scott – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2004
Twenty-six empirical studies of collaboration among teaching teams comprised of general and special educators were reviewed to determine the impact of ethnocultural diversity, gender diversity, sexual orientation diversity, and disability status diversity on collaborative teaming. Only 1 (4%) of the 26 studies acknowledged that ethnocultural and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Gender Bias, Cooperation, Sexual Orientation
Walker, Alexis J. – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Janet Chafetz dismisses Audre Lorde's dictum that you cannot dismantle the master's house using the master's tools. Instead, she argues compellingly that feminists draw from the same tool kit from which all social scientists draw and not from feminist theory and feminist methodology. It is perhaps an indication of how far we have come that four…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Issues, Social Science Research, Social Bias