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"We Are Not That Old You Know:" Dance as a Dwelling Place for Women over 65 in the Northern Part of Sweden
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Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia; Andersson, Ninnie – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
This article communicates a study on dance for people over 65 in Sweden. Earlier studies on dance for elderly people have primarily focused on treatment and wellbeing. The current study centers on the right to make oneself heard in and through contemporary dance as an artistic form of expression, regardless of age, gender, or geographical context.…
Descriptors: Females, Dance, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
Gendered Vocational Identities -- Female Students' Strategies for Identity Formation during Workplace-Based Learning in Male-Dominated Work
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Ferm, Lisa; Gustavsson, Maria – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Purpose: This article investigates female vocational students' strategies for becoming part of a workplace community, what these strategies are and how they are tied to the formation of vocational identities within male-dominated industrial work. Of particular interest is how female students enrolled on Swedish upper secondary industrial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Females
'You Do It in Your Own Particular Way.' Physical Education, Gender and (Dis)Ability
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Apelmo, Elisabet – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The aim of this article was to explore, from a gender perspective, how young sporting women with physical impairments experience physical education (PE), and which strategies they use to manage situations that arise in the everyday interaction in connection with those lessons. Phenomenology provides a theoretical framework that includes the body.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Gender Differences, Females, Athletes
A More "Livable" School? A Diffractive Analysis of the Performative Enactments of Girls' Ill-/Well-Being With(in) School Environments
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Lenz Taguchi, Hillevi; Palmer, Anna – Gender and Education, 2013
School girls in Sweden are reported to develop psychological (ill)health in relation to their school behaviour and over-achievements. The methods offered as prevention and treatments are aimed at the individual girl's self-management of stress, health and psychological state, putting the responsibility on the girls themselves. This feminist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Environment, Gender Differences
From Individual to Relational Strategies: Transforming a Manual-Based Psycho-Educational Course at School
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Wickstrom, Anette – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2013
The present article focuses on 13-year-old girls' meaning-making processes during participation in a manual-based psycho-educational course at school. Drawing on childhood studies and ethnographic investigations of subjectivity, the author explores how the course is realized in practice. The analysis, based on video-recordings of 13 classes, shows…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Video Technology, Psychoeducational Methods, Ethnography
Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Relation to Subjective Health among Adult Female Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
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Jonzon, Eva; Lindblad, Frank – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objective: To investigate the relationships between risk and protective factors and health outcome in a sample of adult females who had been victims of child sexual abuse. Method: Both person- and variable-oriented analyses were applied to questionnaire data from a non-clinical group of women (n=152) reporting sexual abuse during childhood.…
Descriptors: Females, Risk, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse