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Alghamdi, Amani Khalaf H.; Alsaadi, Reem Khudher; Alwadey, Afnan Ali; Najdi, Eman Ahmed – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
Empowered women are a major factor in advancing towards progress and prosperity via national development. But national development plans have received very limited academic analysis. A quantitative descriptive research design was used to discern what actually exists in Saudi Arabia's recent national development plan ("Vision 2030")…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Economic Development
Alyssa Thomas; Kimberley Maxwell; Aaria Dobson-Waitere; Amber Aranui; Ruby Phipps-Black; Tessa Thomson; Ocean Ripeka Mercier – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
Postgraduate research is complex enough, but Indigenous students face unique challenges and additional expectations. For instance, they are often strongly motivated for their tertiary education to support their community's aspirations but distanced from those communities. We are wahine (women) Maori researchers working to restore various local,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Graduate Students, Environmental Research
Dauda Moses; Safiya Adamu; Barbara Crossouard; Máiréad Dunne – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses the use of participatory visual methods with two groups of young women (coresearcher participants) in two distinct (Muslim and Christian) communities in rural northern Nigeria. These workshops addressed the challenges the young women faced in combining education with the multiple forms of work demanded of them in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Young Adults, Christianity
Belgica Marisol Cucalon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Along the P-16 continuum, intersecting systems of oppression work to invisiblize, dismiss, and disparage Latina first-generation students' existing sources of knowledge, identity, and culture, resulting in long-term visible and invisible harm to their growth and well-being. Despite significant gains in higher education enrollment in the last two…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Self Concept, Intersectionality
LaDreka Angela Karikari – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Safety, security, freedom of expression, love, and support are critical components for adolescent youth that encourage growth and development. This study explored how Black girls make sense of their educational experiences while partnering with school staff through the RoyalSapphires program. Children must be in relationships with well intended…
Descriptors: African American Children, Females, After School Programs, Grade 4
Mahalingam, Mahalakshmi R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Food insecurity is a global concern and is acute in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as well as pockets in the global North. In the lush green spaces of "God's Own Country", the state of Kerala in India, about 379,000 women are engaged in farming in about 75,800 groups. Spearheaded by Kudumbashree, the State Poverty Eradication Mission…
Descriptors: Hunger, Females, Agricultural Occupations, Poverty
Golding, Barry; Carragher, Lucia; Foley, Annette – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
Our paper focuses on delineating and scoping international Women's Sheds, a movement that has emerged within the past decade, mainly in Australia, Ireland and the UK. It addresses two main research questions. Firstly, what is the origin, distribution, nature and intent of Women's Sheds internationally to March 2021? Secondly, how might Women's…
Descriptors: Community Development, Females, Organizations (Groups), Classification
Raniga, Tanusha – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: Nation states in both the Global North and South have debated the human rights and liberatory function as opposed to the dependency and economically viable function of social protection policy. This article is an attempt to advance empirical knowledge in the field of social protection policy and poverty alleviation. Method: Using…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Cooperatives, Females, Foreign Countries
Brushwood Rose, Chloë – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
This paper offers a narrative case study of Mirabel, one participant in a digital storytelling workshop for women who were newcomers to Canada, whose experience compelled me to rethink conceptualizations of participation in social justice-oriented, community-based participatory media projects. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, I consider how…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Story Telling, Workshops
Zapata, Alodia D. G. – African Educational Research Journal, 2018
Politics, as in many spheres of life in the Philippines, is still very much a male enclave. From the smallest government unit up to the national level, men dominate (Gemba, 2001). The study aimed to find out the factors that facilitates or restrains women candidates from participating in the political arena. This study was conducted among Lady…
Descriptors: Politics, Gender Differences, Females, Political Candidates
Feminist Pedagogy and Social Change: The Impact of the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development
Crawford, Charmaine; Jackson-Best, Fatimah – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper examines the utility of a feminist pedagogical framework in establishing and organising the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development (CIGAD), which is a biennial intensive gender and development training programme that has taken place in Barbados since 1993. To highlight the major impact that CIGAD has had in educating and…
Descriptors: Feminism, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research
Takayanagi, Taeko – International Review of Education, 2016
This study investigates the activities of a village-based literacy centre in Kenya and explores the benefits of community development activities on women's well-being in Africa. Through the analysis of the stories of two Maasai women who had experienced adult literacy learning, the author discovered that: (1) the literacy instructor had inadequate…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Empowerment, Literacy Education, Informal Education
Pamphilon, Barbara; Mikhailovich, Katja – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2017
Smallholder farmers are the backbone of food production in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Due to an increasing need to pay for schooling and health costs, many farming families are seeking ways to move from semi-subsistence farming to activities that generate more income. The long tradition of agricultural training in PNG to support the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Access to Education, Family Income
Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel; Suandi, Turiman; Cephas, Oluwaseyitan Rotimi; Abu-Samah, Irza Hanie – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Social mobilization is a proactive measure for community development that salvages the society from destruction and disaster. From sociological perspective, this paper discusses the concept of social mobilization and its implications for cross-cultural research. To do this, the study uses the "Bring Back Our Girls" Global Campaign, as…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Community Development, Content Analysis, Secondary School Students
Pamphilon, Barbara; Mikhailovich, Katja; Chambers, Barbara – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
This article examines the lessons from a collaborative project that worked with women agricultural leaders in Papua New Guinea. The project sought to build the capacity of these leaders as trainers in a way that would enable the development of a sustainable community of practice and worked within a critical and place-based pedagogy underpinned by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Agriculture, Leadership Training